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CVE-2010-1917

17
FAUCET Score

CVE-2010-1917 describes a stack consumption vulnerability in PHP versions 5.2 through 5.2.13 and 5.3 through 5.3.2. This flaw allows unauthenticated, remote attackers to trigger a denial of service (PHP crash) by supplying a specially crafted, long string as the first argument to the fnmatch function. With a CVSS score of 5.0 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P), it indicates a network-exploitable vulnerability with low attack complexity, resulting in partial availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
5.2.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:5.2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
5.2.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:5.2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
5.2.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:5.2.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
5.2.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:5.2.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
5.2.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:5.2.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
3.01%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
86.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0301 is in the 80th percentile among its peer group of 23,723 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-2010-1917Low

php: fnmatch long pattern stack memory exhaustion (MOPS-2010-021)

May 11, 2010

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2010-09/msg00006.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2010-10/msg00000.html
marc.info
secunia.com / advisories/40860
secunia.com / advisories/42410
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/58585
debian.org / security/2010/dsa-2089
php-security.org / 2010/05/11/mops-2010-021-php-fnmatch-stack-exhaustion-vulnerability/index.html
Exploit
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2010-0919.html
vupen.com / english/advisories/2010/3081