Vulnerability Report

CVE-2010-2540

Title: Umn Mapserver

Other

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2010-2540.

CWE Category CWE-264

Published Date Aug 02, 2010

Modified Date Apr 29, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 10.0 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

1.98%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2010-2540: 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.

Impacted Vendors

university_of_minnesota 1

umn 1

osgeo 1

Reference Links

http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/mapserver-users/2010-July/066052.html http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=127973381215859&w=2 http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=127973754121922&w=2 http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/ticket/3485 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/41855 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/60852 http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/mapserver-users/2010-July/066052.html http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=127973381215859&w=2 http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=127973754121922&w=2 http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/ticket/3485 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/41855 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/60852

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

10.0

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2010-2540 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

April 29, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 11, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

August 02, 2010 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.