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CVE-2010-0397

31
FAUCET Score

CVE-2010-0397 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in the xmlrpc extension of PHP 5.3.1. An attacker can trigger a NULL pointer dereference and application crash by providing a crafted argument to the xmlrpc_decode_request function that lacks a methodName element. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity, and can be exploited remotely with low attack complexity, leading to a denial of service. While there is an ExploitDB entry for a related vulnerability, there is no evidence of active exploitation, Metasploit modules, or significant community discussion or media coverage for this specific CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
5.3.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:5.3.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
11.53%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
95.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-33755 · Mar 12, 2010
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.1153 is in the 95th percentile among its peer group of 23,705 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

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: php-0:4.3.9-3.31
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: php-0:5.1.6-27.el5_5.3
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2010-0397Low

php: NULL pointer dereference in XML-RPC extension

Mar 12, 2010

References

bugs.debian.org / cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi
Exploit
lists.apple.com / archives/security-announce/2010//Aug/msg00003.html
lists.apple.com / archives/security-announce/2010//Nov/msg00000.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2010-05/msg00002.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2010-06/msg00001.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2010-09/msg00006.html
secunia.com / advisories/42410
support.apple.com / kb/HT4312
support.apple.com / kb/HT4435
mandriva.com / security/advisories
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2010/03/12/5
Exploit
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2010-0919.html
securityfocus.com / bid/38708
Exploit
vupen.com / english/advisories/2010/0724
vupen.com / english/advisories/2010/3081