Predictive Vulnerability Intelligence.

Product

  • Product
  • Pricing
  • Documentation

Company

  • About
  • Partnerships
  • Blog
  • Support

Legal

  • Terms
  • Privacy
  • Data Licensing

© 2026 FAUCET Technologies LLC. All rights reserved.

CVE-2007-4045

18
FAUCET Score

CVE-2007-4045 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in the CUPS service, affecting SUSE Linux and other distributions, including Apple and Fedora versions. This flaw, an incomplete fix for a previous issue, allows remote attackers to disrupt SSL negotiation. With a CVSS score of 5.0 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P), it indicates a network-exploitable vulnerability with low attack complexity, requiring no authentication, and resulting in a partial availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion or media coverage for this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 1.2.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:apple:cups:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
7CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

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

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

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
4.59%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
90.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0459 is in the 87th percentile among its peer group of 23,705 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

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (3)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3Fixed in: cups-1:1.1.17-13.3.46
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: cups-1:1.1.22-0.rc1.9.20.2.el4_5.2
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2007-4045Low

Incomplete fix for CVE-2007-0720 CUPS denial of service

Jul 20, 2007

References

bugs.gentoo.org / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/27577
Third Party Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/27615
Third Party Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/28113
Third Party Advisory
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9303
Third Party Advisory
support.avaya.com / elmodocs2/security/ASA-2007-476.htm
Third Party Advisory
redhat.com / archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-November/msg00238.html
Third Party Advisory
gentoo.org / security/en/glsa/glsa-200712-14.xml
Third Party Advisory
mandriva.com / security/advisories
Third Party Advisory
novell.com / linux/security/advisories/2007_14_sr.html
Broken Link
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2007-1022.html
Third Party Advisory
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2007-1023.html
Third Party Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/26524
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry