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CVE-2010-2968

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2010-08-05 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-264

Description

The FTP daemon in Wind River VxWorks does not close the TCP connection after a number of failed login attempts, which makes it easier for remote attackers to obtain access via a brute-force attack.

Affected products

• Windriver Vxworks: through 6.8; 5, 5.5, 6, 6.4

References

• http://blog.metasploit.com/2010/08/vxworks-vulnerabilities.html
• http://blog.metasploit.com/2010/08/vxworks-vulnerabilities.html

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