Is CVE-2008-4572 in the CISA KEV catalog?

No. CVE-2008-4572 is not currently on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities list.

What is the CVSS severity of CVE-2008-4572?

CVE-2008-4572 has a CVSS v2 base score of 10.0 (HIGH).

What is the EPSS score for CVE-2008-4572?

CVE-2008-4572 has an EPSS score of 60.69% (99th percentile), estimating the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days.

CVE & CISA-KEV Catalog

CVE-2008-4572

HIGHEPSS 99th pctl

10.0

CVSS v2

NVD

Description

GuildFTPd 0.999.14, and possibly other versions, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via long arguments to the CWD and LIST commands, which triggers heap corruption related to an improper free call, and possibly triggering a heap-based buffer overflow.

CWE-119Buffer Overflow

CVSS v2 Vector

No CVSS vector data available.

Exploit Intelligence

60.69%probability of exploitation in 30 days

99thpercentile

Very high risk: more likely to be exploited than 99% of all known CVEs.

References

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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.