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CVE-2010-4562

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 14.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2012-02-02 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-200

Description

Microsoft Windows 2008, 7, Vista, 2003, 2000, and XP, when using IPv6, allows remote attackers to determine whether a host is sniffing the network by sending an ICMPv6 Echo Request to a multicast address and determining whether an Echo Reply is sent, as demonstrated by thcping. NOTE: due to a typo, some sources map CVE-2010-4562 to a ProFTPd mod_sql vulnerability, but that issue is covered by CVE-2010-4652.

Affected products

• Microsoft Windows 2000: all versions
• Microsoft Windows 2003 Server: all versions
• Microsoft Windows 7: all versions
• Microsoft Windows Server 2008: all versions
• Microsoft Windows Vista: all versions
• Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 3: all versions

References

• http://seclists.org/dailydave/2011/q2/25
• http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2011/Apr/254
• http://seclists.org/dailydave/2011/q2/25
• http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2011/Apr/254

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