Vulnerability in OpenSSL

CVE-2010-0742

The Cryptographic Message Syntax (CMS) implementation in crypto/cms/cms_asn1.c in OpenSSL before 0.9.8o and 1.x before 1.0.0a does not properly handle structures that contain OriginatorInfo, which allows context-dependent attackers to modify invalid memory locations or conduct double-free attacks, and possibly execute arbitrary code, via unspecified vectors.

Vulnerability class: POODLE (CVE-2014-3566)

Published · last modified .

CVSS v2 metric

CVSS v2 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.078 (94.5th percentile), scored .

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 94th percentile — 94.5% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS trend (30 days)EPSS over the last 30 days for CVE-2010-0742: held from 0.078 to 0.078.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.078 · newest: 0.078 · change: 0.000

Affected products

  • OpenSSL — versions 0.9.7a, 0.9.6e, 0.9.7g

Weakness classification (CWE)

Public proof-of-concept exploits

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2010-0742?
CVE-2010-0742 is a vulnerability in OpenSSL, classified under Cryptographic Issues. Published 2010-06-03.
Is CVE-2010-0742 known to be exploited?
3 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.