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CVE-2010-0793

23
FAUCET Score

CVE-2010-0793 describes a buffer overflow vulnerability in BarnOwl versions prior to 1.5.1. This flaw allows remote attackers to trigger a denial of service (crash) and potentially execute arbitrary code by sending a specially crafted CC: header. With a CVSS score of 7.5, this vulnerability is considered high severity, requiring no authentication and having low attack complexity, with potential impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, nor are there publicly available exploit modules in Metasploit, Nuclei, or ExploitDB, and it has received negligible community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 1.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:barnowl:barnowl:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:barnowl:barnowl:1.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:barnowl:barnowl:1.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.0.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:barnowl:barnowl:1.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.0.2.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:barnowl:barnowl:1.0.2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

7.5HIGH

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

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
3.81%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
88.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0381 is in the 80th percentile among its peer group of 51,551 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

barnowl.mit.edu / wiki/barnowl-1.5.1-announce
PatchVendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/39908
debian.org / security/2010/dsa-2049
vupen.com / english/advisories/2010/1218