MEDIUM SEVERITY

CVE-2010-0397

Php vulnerability

CVSS
5.0
EPSS
11.5%
EPSS pct
96th
Exploited
No known
The xmlrpc extension in PHP 5.3.1 does not properly handle a missing methodName element in the first argument to the xmlrpc_decode_request function, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) and possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted argument.
Affected vendor
Php
Affected product
Php
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Published
2010-03-16

Risk analysis

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

Its EPSS score of 11.5% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 96% of all scored CVEs.

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