CVE-2010-1917: php Resource Management Errors
Vulnerability summary
CVE-2010-1917 is a medium (CVSS 5.0) Resource Management Errors vulnerability in php. EPSS estimates a 3.01% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 87.4% of scored vulnerabilities. 1 public exploit is recorded.
Not severe (CVSS 5, network access); no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources
Source freshness unavailable
How is this decided?Advisory lineage
Upstream 0 · Downstream 2Timeline
- 12-05-2010PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
- 07-08-2024Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.
Description
Stack consumption vulnerability in PHP 5.2 through 5.2.13 and 5.3 through 5.3.2 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (PHP crash) via a crafted first argument to the fnmatch function, as demonstrated using a long string.
CVSS metrics
1 score · 1 source · 1 versionEPSS trend
Probability
3.01%
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
Percentile
87%
Versus all other CVEs
30-day change
No change 0.00 pp
From 3.01% on 04-10-2026
Known exploited
Compare KEV catalogs
CISA KEVNot in the CISA KEV catalog.
ENISA CNWNot in the ENISA CNW catalog.
CIRCLNot in the CIRCL catalog.
Public exploits
1 foundExploit Reference (php-security.org)
Maturity: unknown
Weaknesses
CWE · root causeAffected systems
Known conditions: network-reachable, no authentication (CVSS vector). Other conditions: not stated in public data.
Php1 product
- phpEOL5.2.0 | 5.2.1 | 5.2.2 | 5.2.3 | 5.2.4 | 5.2.5 | 5.2.6 | 5.2.8 | 5.2.9 | 5.2.10 | 5.2.11 | 5.2.12 | 5.2.13 | 5.3.0 | 5.3.1 | 5.3.2
1 vendor · 1 product
