CVE-2010-2540

Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2010-08-02 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-264

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.

Affected products

MapServer: through 4.10.5; through 5.6.3; 4.2.0-beta1, 4.4.0, 4.4.0-beta1, 4.4.0-beta2, 4.4.0-beta3, 4.6.0 (+45)
Umn Mapserver: 4.0

References

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

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