CVE-2010-5279 — article.php in Virtual War (aka VWar) 1.6.1 R2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a large integer in the ratearticleselect parameter

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article.php in Virtual War (aka VWar) 1.6.1 R2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a large integer in the ratearticleselect parameter

Published Oct 8, 2012

5.0

MEDIUM

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 1.29%

Description

article.php in Virtual War (aka VWar) 1.6.1 R2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a large integer in the ratearticleselect parameter.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

1.29% 0.01288

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

EPSS probability 0.01288

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 (12 key points)

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

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	1.29% (0.01288)	69.12th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	1.29% (0.01288)	66.32th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	0.48% (0.00481)	63.10th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.26% (0.00256)	65.88th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Apr 25, 2024	0.21% (0.00211)	58.61th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 15, 2024	0.20% (0.00203)	57.54th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Feb 8, 2024	0.18% (0.00184)	54.50th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.28% (0.00276)	63.10th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	1.05% (0.01055)	52.13th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Sep 17, 2022	1.05% (0.01055)	50.47th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	1.05% (0.01055)	48.43th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	1.05% (0.01055)	27.52th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-189

References (2)

http://dmcdonald.net/vwar.txt
x_refsource_MISCExploit
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2010/Aug/235
mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISCExploit

Link	Providers	Tags
http://dmcdonald.net/vwar.txt		x_refsource_MISCExploit
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2010/Aug/235		mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISCExploit

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Oct 8, 2012

Updated Sep 17, 2024

Reserved Oct 8, 2012

Link CVE-2010-5279

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 16, 2026

Link CVE-2010-5279

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2010-5279