CVE-2010-3899

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2010-11-12 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

IBM OmniFind Enterprise Edition 8.x and 9.x performs web crawls with an unlimited recursion depth, which allows remote web servers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a crafted series of documents.

Affected products

IBM Omnifind: 8.0, 9.0

References

http://security.fatihkilic.de/advisory/fkilic-sa-2010-ibm-omnifind.txt
http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/15476
http://www.osvdb.org/69078
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/514688/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/44740
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2933
http://security.fatihkilic.de/advisory/fkilic-sa-2010-ibm-omnifind.txt
http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/15476
http://www.osvdb.org/69078
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/514688/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/44740
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2933

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