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CVE-2008-7312

17
FAUCET Score

CVE-2008-7312 describes a bypass vulnerability in the Filtering Service of Websense Enterprise versions 5.2 through 6.3. The service fails to consider the IP address during URL categorization, allowing remote attackers to bypass filtering by directing requests to compromised servers associated with specific IP addresses. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity with network-based attacks and potential for partial integrity impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion, suggesting it is not a widely targeted or discussed vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
5.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:websense:enterprise:5.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
5.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:websense:enterprise:5.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
6.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:websense:enterprise:6.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
6.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:websense:enterprise:6.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
6.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:websense:enterprise:6.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.19%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
64.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0119 is in the 43rd percentile among its peer group of 23,703 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/78299
websense.com / support/article/t-kbarticle/Why-doesn-t-my-Websense-installation-categorize-URLs-and-Permit-Block-in-accordance-with-the-Site-Lookup-Tool-s-categorization
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