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CVE-2010-4755

18
FAUCET Score

CVE-2010-4755 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in OpenSSH versions 5.8 and earlier, affecting products like FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD. Remote authenticated users can exploit this by sending crafted glob expressions in SSH_FXP_STAT requests to an SFTP daemon, leading to excessive CPU and memory consumption. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.0, indicating a low severity with network access and requiring authentication. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 5.8CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:openbsd:openssh:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:openbsd:openssh:1.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.2.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:openbsd:openssh:1.2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.2.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:openbsd:openssh:1.2.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.2.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:openbsd:openssh:1.2.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

4.0MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
SINGLE
Exploitability Score
8.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
7.79%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
94.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0779 is in the 98th percentile among its peer group of 21,977 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 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 Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2010-4755

openssh: remote DoS in sftp via crafted glob expressions

Jan 3, 2011

References

cvsweb.netbsd.org / cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/src/crypto/dist/ssh/Attic/sftp.c
Patch
cvsweb.netbsd.org / cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/src/crypto/dist/ssh/Attic/sftp-glob.c
Patch
cxib.net / stuff/glob-0day.c
Exploit
ftp.netbsd.org / pub/NetBSD/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2010-008.txt.asc
Vendor Advisory
securityreason.com / achievement_securityalert/89
Exploit
securityreason.com / exploitalert/9223
Exploit
securityreason.com / securityalert/8116