CVE-2010-0618 — The flood-protection feature in the base, IPDS DLE, Forms DLE, Barcode DLE, Prescribe DLE, and Printcryption DLE components on certain Lexmark laser and inkjet printers and MarkNet devices allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (TCP outage) by making many passive FTP connections and then aborting these connections

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The flood-protection feature in the base, IPDS DLE, Forms DLE, Barcode DLE, Prescribe DLE, and Printcryption DLE components on certain Lexmark laser and inkjet printers and MarkNet devices allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (TCP outage) by making many passive FTP connections and then aborting these connections

Published Mar 24, 2010

5.0

MEDIUM

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 1.44%

Description

The flood-protection feature in the base, IPDS DLE, Forms DLE, Barcode DLE, Prescribe DLE, and Printcryption DLE components on certain Lexmark laser and inkjet printers and MarkNet devices allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (TCP outage) by making many passive FTP connections and then aborting these connections.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

1.44% 0.01440

Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.

EPSS probability 0.01440

Score over time

2022–2026

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Percentile over time

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Table of values (10 key points)

Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	1.44% (0.01440)	72.23th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	1.44% (0.01440)	69.64th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	0.73% (0.00730)	70.99th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	1.28% (0.01282)	86.34th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
May 3, 2024	1.28% (0.01282)	85.65th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	1.28% (0.01282)	83.63th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	1.21% (0.01213)	66.61th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 17, 2023	1.21% (0.01213)	66.22th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	1.21% (0.01213)	64.21th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	1.21% (0.01213)	40.54th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (0)

No CWE recorded.

References (5)

http://secunia.com/advisories/39056
third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://support.lexmark.com/index?page=content&id=TE85&locale=EN&userlocale=EN_US
x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory
http://www.protekresearchlab.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=11&Itemid=11
x_refsource_MISC
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/510285/100/0/threaded
mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/38906
vdb-entryx_refsource_BID

Link	Providers	Tags
http://secunia.com/advisories/39056		third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://support.lexmark.com/index?page=content&id=TE85&locale=EN&userlocale=EN_US		x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory
http://www.protekresearchlab.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=11&Itemid=11		x_refsource_MISC
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/510285/100/0/threaded		mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/38906		vdb-entryx_refsource_BID

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Mar 24, 2010

Updated Aug 7, 2024

Reserved Feb 11, 2010

Link CVE-2010-0618

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 16, 2026

Link CVE-2010-0618

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2010-0618