VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2010-2540

critical
Published 2010-08-02 · 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
10.0

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.

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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OS impact
debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 5.6.4-1
sid Fixed 5.6.4-1
forky Fixed 5.6.4-1
bullseye Fixed 5.6.4-1
bookworm Fixed 5.6.4-1

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
osgeomapserver{"endIncluding":"4.10.5"}
osgeomapserver4.2.0
osgeomapserver4.4.0
osgeomapserver4.6.0
osgeomapserver4.8.0
osgeomapserver4.10.0
osgeomapserver4.10.1
osgeomapserver4.10.2
osgeomapserver4.10.3
osgeomapserver4.10.4
umnmapserver4.0
osgeomapserver5.0.0
osgeomapserver5.2.0
osgeomapserver5.2.1
osgeomapserver5.4.0
osgeomapserver5.4.1
osgeomapserver5.4.2
osgeomapserver5.6.0
osgeomapserver5.6.1

References

CWEs

CWE-264

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

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