CVE-2010-3071

bip before 0.8.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and daemon crash) via an empty USER command.

Published: 2010-10-14 Last update: 2026-04-29 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2010-3071 is rated Moderate Risk (48.1/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 1.88%). Mandatory action: Review affected assets and schedule remediation.

Risk is dynamic; we continuously reassess and refresh what is shown on this page as upstream context changes.

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2010-3071

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2025-03-30 2.34% 1.88% -0.46%
2 2025-03-29 1.88% 2.34% +0.46%
3 2025-03-17 1.88%

Full EPSS history (5 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2010-3071

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
5.0 2.0 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
Access complexity (AC:L)
Exploitation conditions are straightforward and predictable.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:N)
No confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:N)
No integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:P)
Partial availability impact.
10.0 2.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2010-3071

OS Trackers for CVE-2010-3071

vendor priority summary link
debian low CVE-2010-3071 low priority: Debian including 1 source packages (bip), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2010-3071
gentoo high CVE-2010-3071: 1 GLSA(s) (201201-18), 1 atom(s) (net-irc/bip); latest impact high. https://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=CVE-2010-3071
ubuntu low CVE-2010-3071 low priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (bip), 9 status rows across 9 suites (dapper, hardy, jaunty, karmic, lucid, maverick, natty, oneiric, upstream): ignored 4, not-affected 3, released 2. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2010-3071

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2010-3071

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
duckcorp bip <= 0.8.5 cpe:2.3:a:duckcorp:bip:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
duckcorp bip 0.7.0 cpe:2.3:a:duckcorp:bip:0.7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
duckcorp bip 0.7.1 cpe:2.3:a:duckcorp:bip:0.7.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
duckcorp bip 0.7.2 cpe:2.3:a:duckcorp:bip:0.7.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
duckcorp bip 0.7.3 cpe:2.3:a:duckcorp:bip:0.7.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
duckcorp bip 0.7.4 cpe:2.3:a:duckcorp:bip:0.7.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
duckcorp bip 0.7.5 cpe:2.3:a:duckcorp:bip:0.7.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
duckcorp bip 0.8.0 cpe:2.3:a:duckcorp:bip:0.8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
duckcorp bip 0.8.0 cpe:2.3:a:duckcorp:bip:0.8.0:rc0:*:*:*:*:*:*
duckcorp bip 0.8.0 cpe:2.3:a:duckcorp:bip:0.8.0:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
duckcorp bip 0.8.1 cpe:2.3:a:duckcorp:bip:0.8.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
duckcorp bip 0.8.2 cpe:2.3:a:duckcorp:bip:0.8.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
duckcorp bip 0.8.3 cpe:2.3:a:duckcorp:bip:0.8.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
duckcorp bip 0.8.4 cpe:2.3:a:duckcorp:bip:0.8.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2010-3071

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