THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2008-3177
MEDIUM SEVERITY

CVE-2008-3177

Email Appliance vulnerability

CVSS
5.0
EPSS
5.1%
EPSS pct
92th
Exploited
No known
Sophos virus detection engine 2.75 on Linux and Unix, as used in Sophos Email Appliance, Pure Message for Unix, and Sophos Anti-Virus Interface (SAVI), allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (engine crash) via zero-length MIME attachments.
Affected vendor
Sophos
Affected product
Email Appliance
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weakness type (CWE)
Published
2008-07-15

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 5.1% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 92% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2008-3177

  • Confirm whether Sophos Email Appliance is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2008-3177.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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