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CVE-2010-4816 json

It was found in FreeBSD 8.0, 6.3 and 4.9, and OpenBSD 4.6 that a null pointer dereference in ftpd/popen.c may lead to remote denial of serv…

published 5y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2010-4781

cvss
7.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.4%
EPSS 2.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 84%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

It was found in FreeBSD 8.0, 6.3 and 4.9, and OpenBSD 4.6 that a null pointer dereference in ftpd/popen.c may lead to remote denial of service of the ftpd service.

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Exploit prediction

2.42% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 84% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • bugs.freebsd.org https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=144761 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified
  • seclists.org https://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2010/Mar/117 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Affected products

  • n/a FreeBSD and OpenBSD ftpd service

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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