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CVE-2008-5747

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2008-5747 describes a bypass vulnerability in F-Prot Antivirus for GNU/Linux, version 4.6.8. Remote attackers can evade detection by submitting a specially crafted ELF executable with a corrupted header that still permits execution. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity, and allows for a denial of service (A:P) without requiring authentication (Au:N) or complex attack conditions (AC:L). There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
4.6.8CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:f-prot:f-prot_antivirus:4.6.8:*:linux:*:*:*:*:*

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
3.06%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
86.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0306 is in the 81st percentile among its peer group of 23,705 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, 0.1 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

secunia.com / advisories/34700
security.gentoo.org / glsa/glsa-200904-14.xml
securityreason.com / securityalert/4822
ivizsecurity.com / security-advisory-iviz-sr-08016.html
securityfocus.com / archive/1/499083
securityfocus.com / archive/1/499305/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / archive/1/499501/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / bid/32753