CVE-2010-2266

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 0.8.36 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via certain encoded directory traversal sequences that trigger memory corruption, as demonstrated using the "%c0.%c0." sequence.

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.

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Exploits

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

Exploit-DB

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.

OS impact

Debian Fixed 5 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`0`
sid	Fixed	`0`
forky	Fixed	`0`
bullseye	Fixed	`0`
bookworm	Fixed	`0`

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
f5	nginx	`{"startIncluding":"0.7.52","endExcluding":"0.7.67"}`	`0.7.67`
nginx	nginx	`{"startIncluding":"0.7.52","endExcluding":"0.7.67"}`	`0.7.67`
nginx	nginx	`{"startIncluding":"0.8.0","endIncluding":"0.8.40"}`

References

CWEs

CWE-22

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

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