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CVE-2010-2621

32
FAUCET Score

CVE-2010-2621 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Qt versions 4.6.3 and earlier, specifically within the QSslSocketBackendPrivate::transmit function. A remote attacker can trigger an infinite loop by sending a malformed request, leading to service disruption. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity, and is easily exploitable over the network with low attack complexity and no authentication required. While not listed in CISA's KEV catalog, public exploit code exists on ExploitDB, though there is no evidence of active exploitation or significant community discussion.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 4.6.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:digia:qt:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:qt:qt:4.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:qt:qt:4.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.1.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:qt:qt:4.1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.1.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:qt:qt:4.1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
10.54%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
95.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-14268 · Jul 8, 2010
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.1054 is in the 94th percentile among its peer group of 23,725 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 Patches (1)

redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: qt

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2010-2621Low

(QSslSocketBackendPrivate): DoS (infinite loop) via malformed request

Jun 29, 2010

References

aluigi.org / adv/qtsslame-adv.txt
aluigi.org / poc/qtsslame.zip
Exploit
osvdb.org / 65860
qt.gitorious.org / qt/qt/commit/c25c7c9bdfade6b906f37ac8bad44f6f0de57597
secunia.com / advisories/40389
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/46410
Vendor Advisory
hermes.opensuse.org / messages/12056605
securityfocus.com / bid/41250
Exploit
vupen.com / english/advisories/2010/1657
Vendor Advisory