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CVE-2008-1737

18
FAUCET Score

CVE-2008-1737 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Sophos Anti-Virus 7.x, specifically when Runtime Behavioral Analysis is enabled. A local attacker can trigger a system reboot and disable the antivirus product, potentially leading to privilege escalation, by providing a zero value in a length field to the NtCreateKey function. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 6.9 (high severity), indicating a local attack vector with medium complexity and high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
7.0.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:sophos:anti-virus:7.0.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

6.9MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.4
Impact Score
10.0
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.62%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
46.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0062 is in the 82nd percentile among its peer group of 1,595 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 0.1 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/29996
Vendor Advisory
securityreason.com / securityalert/3838
securitytracker.com / id
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/42083
coresecurity.com
securityfocus.com / archive/1/491405/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / bid/28743
sophos.com / support/knowledgebase/article/37810.html
vupen.com / english/advisories/2008/1381