CVE-2008-5183
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…
- 7.5HighCVSS base score
- 9.2%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 4.6% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 1Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
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.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list an Exploit-DB entry for it. A reference of the record is tagged as an exploit.
Show the exploits2
Exploit-DB1 entry
- CUPS 1.3.7 - Cross-Site Request Forgery (Add RSS Subscription) Remote Crash (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 7150dos, linuxpublished 18 Nov 2008Verified
References tagged exploit1 reference
- 7150 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
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Timeline
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By canonical
- 1 day later
· 1 day later
Published
- 16 years later
· 16 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 9.2% · top 4.6% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
21
- 7150 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- 33937 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10586 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20081120 Re: CVE request: CUPS DoS via RSS subscriptions (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20081119 CVE request: CUPS DoS via RSS subscriptions (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20081119 Re: CVE request: CUPS DoS via RSS subscriptions (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3438 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- APPLE-SA-2009-02-12 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_APPLEx_transferred
- DSA-2176 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- 1021396 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- http://www.gnucitizen.org/blog/pwning-ubuntu-via-cups/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- ADV-2011-0535 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- ADV-2009-0422 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 32419 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- RHSA-2008:1029 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- 43521 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- http://lab.gnucitizen.org/projects/cups-0day (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- cups-rss-dos(46684) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- SUSE-SR:2008:026 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- MDVSA-2009:028 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVAx_transferred
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cups/+bug/298241 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2008-5161 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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