Is CVE-2008-1391 in the CISA KEV catalog?

No. CVE-2008-1391 is not currently on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities list.

What is the CVSS severity of CVE-2008-1391?

CVE-2008-1391 has a CVSS v2 base score of 7.5 (HIGH).

What is the EPSS score for CVE-2008-1391?

CVE-2008-1391 has an EPSS score of 18.80% (97th percentile), estimating the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days.

How do I fix CVE-2008-1391?

Upgrade glibc on debian 11 to 2.11-1 or later.

CVE & CISA-KEV Catalog

CVE-2008-1391

HIGHEPSS 97th pctl

7.5

CVSS v2

NVD

Description

Multiple integer overflows in libc in NetBSD 4.x, FreeBSD 6.x and 7.x, and probably other BSD and Apple Mac OS platforms allow context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via large values of certain integer fields in the format argument to (1) the strfmon function in lib/libc/stdlib/strfmon.c, related to the GET_NUMBER macro; and (2) the printf function, related to left_prec and right_prec.

CWE-189

How to fix

Remediation Available

glibcDebian

Fixed in:2.11-1CVE-2008-1391

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CVSS v2 Vector

No CVSS vector data available.

Exploit Intelligence

18.80%probability of exploitation in 30 days

97thpercentile

Very high risk: more likely to be exploited than 97% of all known CVEs.

References

Exploit2

Government Resource1

us-cert.gov

Other references12

Related Vulnerabilities

Other CWE-189 vulnerabilities, ordered by exploit likelihood. View all

CVE	Severity	CVSS	EPSS	Exploited	Fix
CVE-2015-1538	High	10.0	99%	-	-
CVE-2006-3747	High	7.6	96%	-	Fix
CVE-2007-0071	High	9.3	93%	-	-
CVE-2015-3829	High	10.0	90%	-	-
CVE-2015-3864	High	10.0	87%	-	-
CVE-2015-1539	High	10.0	86%	-	-

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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 2026-04-23.