Vulnerability Report

CVE-2010-2810

Title: Lynx RCE

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2010-2810.

CWE Category CWE-119

Published Date Aug 20, 2010

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 6.8 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

3.66%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2010-2810: Heap-based buffer overflow in the convert_to_idna function in WWW/Library/Implementation/HTParse.c in Lynx 2.8.8dev.1 through 2.8.8dev.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a malformed URL containing a % (percent) character in the domain name.

Impacted Vendors

university_of_kansas 1

lynx_project 1

invisible-island 1

lynx 1

Reference Links

http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=128151768510564&w=2 http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=128152412221677&w=2 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1642-1 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2042 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lynx-cur/+bug/613254 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/61007 http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=128151768510564&w=2 http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=128152412221677&w=2 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1642-1 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2042 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lynx-cur/+bug/613254 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/61007

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

6.8

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2010-2810 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

June 16, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 29, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 11, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

August 20, 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:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.