CVE-2008-0550

Exp

Off-by-one error in Steamcast 0.9.75 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) or execute arbitrary code via a certain HTTP request that leads to a buffer overflow, as demonstrated by a long User-Agent header.

Published: 2008-02-01 Last update: 2026-04-23 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2008-0550 is rated High Exploit Risk (84.6/100): CVSS Critical severity, with high exploitation likelihood (EPSS 53.78%, 99th percentile). Core evidence: 3 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). Mandatory action: Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

Risk is dynamic; we continuously reassess and refresh what is shown on this page as upstream context changes.

Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2008-0550

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
16800 exploit_db edb 2010-06-11 Exploit-DB ↗
nvd_ref exploit_tag Exploit-DB ↗
nvd_ref exploit_tag Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2008-0550

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-06-15 68.16% 53.78% -14.37%
2 2025-04-26 65.40% 68.16% +2.76%
3 2025-03-30 65.40%

Full EPSS history (16 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2008-0550

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
10.0 2.0 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
Access complexity (AC:L)
Exploitation conditions are straightforward and predictable.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:C)
Complete confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:C)
Complete integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:C)
Complete availability impact.
10.0 10.0 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2008-0550

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2008-0550

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
radio_toolbox steamcast <= 0.9.75 cpe:2.3:a:radio_toolbox:steamcast:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2008-0550

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