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CVE-2010-4657

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2010-4657 is a memory leak vulnerability affecting PHP5 versions prior to 5.4.4, specifically when handling invalid UTF-8 strings passed to the xmlTextWriterWriteAttribute function, which are then misparsed by libxml2. This flaw has a CVSS score of 7.5 (High), indicating a network-exploitable vulnerability that can lead to a high impact on confidentiality without requiring user interaction or elevated privileges. Despite its severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 5.0.0, < 5.4.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
5.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
6.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
8.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.5HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.54%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
72.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0154 is in the 54th 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

Vendor Patches (3)

redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: php
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: php53
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: php

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2010-4657Low

php: XMLWriter information leak

Oct 6, 2010

References

access.redhat.com / security/cve/cve-2010-4657
Third Party Advisory
bugs.launchpad.net / php/%2Bbug/655442
Third Party Advisory
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingThird Party Advisory
security-tracker.debian.org / tracker/CVE-2010-4657
Third Party Advisory