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CVE-2008-5183

HIGH · CVSS 7.5 EPSS 9.21% Public Exploit

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2008-11-21 · Last synced 2026-08-04

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Public Exploit Signal

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CVE
CVE-2008-5183
Severity
HIGH
CVSS
7.5
EPSS
9.21%

Original NVD 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.