VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2010-2263

medium
Published 2010-06-15 · Modified 2026-04-29
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
6.0

Description

nginx 0.8 before 0.8.40 and 0.7 before 0.7.66, when running on Windows, allows remote attackers to obtain source code or unparsed content of arbitrary files under the web document root by appending ::$DATA to the URI.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-13822 remote windows verified
Jose A. Vazquez · 2010-06-11

Nginx 0.7.65/0.8.39 (dev) - Source Disclosure / Download

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.
EDB-13818 remote windows verified
Dr_IDE · 2010-06-11

Nginx 0.8.36 - Source Disclosure / Denial of Service

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Metasploit modules

auxiliary_scanner/http/nginx_source_disclosure rank 300
Nginx Source Code Disclosure/Download
Source fetch failed: fetch_error — view the original via the link above.

OS impact
debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 0
sid Fixed 0
forky Fixed 0
bullseye Fixed 0
bookworm Fixed 0

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
f5nginx{"startIncluding":"0.7.52","endExcluding":"0.7.66"}0.7.66
nginx nginxnginx{"startIncluding":"0.7.52","endExcluding":"0.7.66"}0.7.66
nginx nginxnginx{"startIncluding":"0.8.0","endIncluding":"0.8.39"}

References

CWEs

CWE-200

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.