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high 7.5

CVE-2010-3198 json

Zope Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability in ZServer

published 2010-09-08 16 y ago modified 2026-07-10 4 mo ago also GHSA-qh4q-fwf8-qqrw , PYSEC-2010-32 , PYSEC-2010-33 , EUVD-2010-0032

cvss
7.5
version 3.1, GitHub
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.5%
EPSS 1.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 75%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

ZServer in Zope 2.10.x before 2.10.12 and 2.11.x before 2.11.7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash of worker threads) via vectors that trigger uncaught exceptions.

Patch / fix

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2010-3198 updated cvss 5.0

Zope: Zope child threads termination due unhandled exceptions in PluggableAuthService (PAS)

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 conga
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

1.54% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 75% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • bugs.launchpad.net https://bugs.launchpad.net/zope2/+bug/627988 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
GitHub 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
pypi zope
>=2.10.0, <2.10.12
>=2.11.0, <2.11.7
2.10.12
2.11.7

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

References

Sources

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