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CVE-2010-5145

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2012-08-23 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

The Filtering Service in Websense Web Security and Web Filter before 6.3.1 Hotfix 136 and 7.x before 7.1.1 on Windows allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (filtering outage) via a crafted sequence of characters in a URI.

Affected products

• Websense Web Filter: through 6.3.0; 7.0, 7.1
• Websense Web Security: through 6.3.0; 7.0, 7.1

References

• http://www.websense.com/content/support/library/web/v711/ws711_known_issues/first.aspx
• http://www.websense.com/content/support/library/web/v711/ws711_known_issues/ws711_known_issues.pdf
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/78345
• http://www.websense.com/content/support/library/web/v711/ws711_known_issues/first.aspx
• http://www.websense.com/content/support/library/web/v711/ws711_known_issues/ws711_known_issues.pdf
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/78345

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