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CVE-2008-1480

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2008-1480 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in rpc.metad within Sun Solaris 10, allowing remote attackers to crash the daemon via a malformed RPC request. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.3, indicating a medium attack complexity and partial availability impact, but no confidentiality or integrity impact. While not listed on the KEV catalog, a Proof-of-Concept exploit is available on ExploitDB. Despite its age, there is minimal community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
10CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:sun:solaris:10:*:x86:*:*:*:*:*
5.10CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:sun:sunos:5.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

4.3MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
5.72%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
92.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-5258 · Mar 14, 2008
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0572 is in the 91st percentile among its peer group of 19,958 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 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

secunia.com / advisories/29418
Vendor Advisory
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/41224
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5698
sunsolve.sun.com / search/document.do
support.avaya.com / elmodocs2/security/ASA-2009-015.htm
exploit-db.com / exploits/5258
securityfocus.com / bid/28261
Exploit
securitytracker.com / id
vupen.com / english/advisories/2008/0918/references
vupen.com / english/advisories/2009/0206