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-2008-2908

61
FAUCET Score

CVE-2008-2908 describes multiple stack-based buffer overflows in the ienipp.ocx ActiveX control within Novell iPrint Client for Windows versions prior to 4.36. This critical vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by supplying excessively long values to the operation, printer-url, or target-frame parameters. With a CVSS score of 9.3, it presents a high risk due to its network-based attack vector, medium attack complexity, and complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While not listed on CISA's KEV catalog, a Metasploit module exists for this vulnerability, indicating readily available exploit code, though it has not garnered significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 4.35CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:novell:iprint_client:*:*:windows:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

9.3HIGH

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

Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
10.0
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
35.42%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
98.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
Metasploit: Novell iPrint Client ActiveX Control Buffer Overflow · Jun 16, 2008
ExploitDB: EDB-16508 · Jun 16, 2008
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.3542 is in the 95th percentile among its peer group of 8,918 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 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/30709
Vendor Advisory
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/43085
support.novell.com / docs/Readmes/InfoDocument/patchbuilder/readme_5028061.html
kb.cert.org / vuls/id/145313
US Government Resource
securityfocus.com / bid/29736
securitytracker.com / id
vupen.com / english/advisories/2008/1837/references