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CVE-2010-1917
Stack consumption vulnerability in PHP 5.2 through 5.2.13 and 5.3 through 5.3.2 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of…
Medium5.0EPSS 3.0%
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- mitre
Description
Stack consumption vulnerability in PHP 5.2 through 5.2.13 and 5.3 through 5.3.2 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (PHP crash) via a crafted first argument to the fnmatch function, as demonstrated using a long string.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium5.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 3.0% · top 13% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.
Weakness
Affected products
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- affected n/a
References (10)
- 40860 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- HPSBMA02662 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_HPx_transferred
- DSA-2089 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- RHSA-2010:0919 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- 42410 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- SUSE-SR:2010:017 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- php-fnmatchfunction-dos(58585) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- SUSE-SR:2010:018 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- http://www.php-security.org/2010/05/11/mops-2010-021-php-fnmatch-stack-exhaustion-vulnerability/index.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- ADV-2010-3081 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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