CVE-2008-5183

Cups vulnerability

CVSS

7.5

EPSS

9.2%

EPSS pct

95th

Exploited

No known

cupsd in CUPS 1.3.9 and earlier allows local users, and possibly remote attackers, to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) by adding a large number of RSS Subscriptions, which triggers a NULL pointer dereference. NOTE: this issue can be triggered remotely by leveraging CVE-2008-5184.

Affected vendor

Apple

Affected product

Cups

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weakness type (CWE)

CWE-476 — NULL Pointer Dereference

Published

2008-11-21

Risk analysis

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

Its EPSS score of 9.2% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 95% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2008-5183

Confirm whether Apple Cups is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2008-5183.
Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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