Is CVE-2005-3191 in the CISA KEV catalog?

No. CVE-2005-3191 is not currently on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities list.

What is the CVSS severity of CVE-2005-3191?

CVE-2005-3191 has a CVSS v2 base score of 5.1 (MEDIUM).

What is the EPSS score for CVE-2005-3191?

CVE-2005-3191 has an EPSS score of 4.08% (89th percentile), estimating the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days.

How do I fix CVE-2005-3191?

Upgrade cups on debian 11 to 1.1.23-13 or later.

CVE & CISA-KEV Catalog

CVE-2005-3191

MEDIUMEPSS 89th pctl

5.1

CVSS v2

NVD

Description

Multiple heap-based buffer overflows in the (1) DCTStream::readProgressiveSOF and (2) DCTStream::readBaselineSOF functions in the DCT stream parsing code (Stream.cc) in xpdf 3.01 and earlier, as used in products such as (a) Poppler, (b) teTeX, (c) KDE kpdf, (d) pdftohtml, (e) KOffice KWord, (f) CUPS, and (g) libextractor allow user-assisted attackers to cause a denial of service (heap corruption) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted PDF file with an out-of-range number of components (numComps), which is used as an array index.

CWE-119Buffer Overflow

How to fix

Remediation Available

cupsDebian

Fixed in:1.1.23-13CVE-2005-3191

Remediation is compiled from vendor and distribution security advisories. Always confirm against the linked source for your exact version and platform.

CVSS v2 Vector

No CVSS vector data available.

Exploit Intelligence

4.08%probability of exploitation in 30 days

89thpercentile

Elevated risk: more likely to be exploited than 89% of all known CVEs.

References

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CVE-2023-4966	Critical	9.4	100%	KEV + Ransom	Fix
CVE-2017-11882	High	7.8	100%	KEV + Ransom	-
CVE-2020-0796	Critical	10.0	100%	KEV + Ransom	-
CVE-2008-4250	Critical	9.8	99%	KEV	-
CVE-2017-15944	Critical	9.8	98%	KEV	Fix
CVE-2015-0014	High	10.0	97%	-	-

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This product uses NVD data but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD. EPSS scores courtesy of FIRST.org (https://www.first.org/epss). Source: CISA KEV Catalog. Data as of 2026-04-16.