HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2010-0138

Ciscoworks Internetwork Performance Monitor vulnerability

CVSS
10.0
EPSS
8.5%
EPSS pct
94th
Exploited
No known
Buffer overflow in Cisco CiscoWorks Internetwork Performance Monitor (IPM) 2.6 and earlier on Windows, as distributed in CiscoWorks LAN Management Solution (LMS), allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a malformed getProcessName CORBA General Inter-ORB Protocol (GIOP) request, related to a "third-party component," aka Bug ID CSCsv62350.
Affected vendor
Cisco
Affected product
Ciscoworks Internetwork Performance Monitor
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within Memory Bounds
Published
2010-01-21

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to complete impact to confidentiality, complete impact to integrity, complete impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 8.5% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 94% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2010-0138

  • Confirm whether Cisco Ciscoworks Internetwork Performance Monitor is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2010-0138.
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