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CVE-2010-0295

33
FAUCET Score

CVE-2010-0295 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting lighttpd versions before 1.4.26 and 1.5.x. Attackers can exploit this by sending fragmented, slow requests, causing the server to allocate excessive memory and leading to resource exhaustion. With a CVSS score of 5.0, this vulnerability is remotely exploitable with low attack complexity, resulting in a partial denial of service. While not actively exploited in the wild, an ExploitDB entry exists, and there is minimal community discussion or media coverage surrounding this decade-old flaw.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 1.4.25CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:lighttpd:lighttpd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.0.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:lighttpd:lighttpd:1.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.0.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:lighttpd:lighttpd:1.0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.1.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:lighttpd:lighttpd:1.1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.1.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:lighttpd:lighttpd:1.1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
12.11%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
95.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-33591 · Feb 2, 2010
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.1211 is in the 95th percentile among its peer group of 23,701 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2010-0295

lighttpd: Remote DoS (excessive memory use) by handling specially-crafted HTTP request

References

blogs.sun.com / security/entry/cve_2010_0295_vulnerability_in
download.lighttpd.net / lighttpd/security/lighttpd-1.4.x_fix_slow_request_dos.patch
Patch
download.lighttpd.net / lighttpd/security/lighttpd-1.5_fix_slow_request_dos.patch
Patch
download.lighttpd.net / lighttpd/security/lighttpd_sa_2010_01.txt
Patch
lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041264.html
lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041296.html
lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041307.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2010-02/msg00003.html
redmine.lighttpd.net / issues/2147
redmine.lighttpd.net / projects/lighttpd/repository/revisions/2710
redmine.lighttpd.net / projects/lighttpd/repository/revisions/2711
secunia.com / advisories/38403
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/39765
security.gentoo.org / glsa/glsa-201006-17.xml
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/56038
debian.org / security/2010/dsa-1987
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2010/02/01/8
securityfocus.com / bid/38036
ExploitPatch
vupen.com / english/advisories/2011/0172