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CVE-2010-2540
mapserv.c in mapserv in MapServer before 4.10.6 and 5.x before 5.6.4 does not properly restrict the use of CGI command-line arguments that…
- 10.0HighCVSS base score
- 3.8%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 9.8% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
mapserv.c in mapserv in MapServer before 4.10.6 and 5.x before 5.6.4 does not properly restrict the use of CGI command-line arguments that were intended for debugging, which allows remote attackers to have an unspecified impact via crafted arguments.
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 33 days later
· 33 days later
Published
- 14 years later
· 14 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High10.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 3.8% · top 9.8% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 10.0.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
6
- [mapserver-users] 20100709 MapServer 5.6.4 and 4.10.6 released with important security fixes (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- 41855 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/ticket/3485 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20100721 Re: CVE id request: mapserver (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- mapserver-cgi-code-execution(60852) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20100721 CVE id request: mapserver (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2010-2544 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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