CVE-2010-3494

Race condition in the FTPHandler class in ftpserver.py in pyftpdlib before 0.5.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon outage) by establishing and then immediately closing a TCP connection, leading to the accept function having an unexpected value of None for the address, or an ECONNABORTED, EAGAIN, or EWOULDBLOCK error, a related issue to CVE-2010-3492.

Published: 2010-10-19 Last update: 2026-06-16 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2010-3494 is rated Moderate Risk (43.7/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 1.58%). Core evidence: EPSS rose +1.17% over the last day, indicating growing attacker interest. Mandatory action: Review affected assets and schedule remediation.

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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2010-3494

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 2026-06-15 0.41% 1.58% +1.17%
2 2025-10-28 0.50% 0.41% -0.08%
3 2025-03-29 0.50%

Full EPSS history (11 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2010-3494

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
4.3 2.0 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/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:M)
Exploitation needs some favorable conditions, but not exceptional ones.
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.
8.6 2.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2010-3494

GitHub Security Advisory for CVE-2010-3494

GHSA-hw4g-fhcp-x5mq · Severity: high · Ecosystem: pip — Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization in pyftpdlib

OS Trackers for CVE-2010-3494

vendor priority summary link
debian low CVE-2010-3494 low priority: Debian including 1 source packages (python-pyftpdlib), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2010-3494
ubuntu medium CVE-2010-3494 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (python-pyftpdlib), 8 status rows across 8 suites (bionic, focal, jammy, noble, plucky, questing, upstream, xenial): not-affected 4, needs-triage 3, released 1. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2010-3494

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2010-3494

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
g.rodola pyftpdlib <= 0.5.1 cpe:2.3:a:g.rodola:pyftpdlib:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
g.rodola pyftpdlib 0.1 cpe:2.3:a:g.rodola:pyftpdlib:0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
g.rodola pyftpdlib 0.1.1 cpe:2.3:a:g.rodola:pyftpdlib:0.1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
g.rodola pyftpdlib 0.2.0 cpe:2.3:a:g.rodola:pyftpdlib:0.2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
g.rodola pyftpdlib 0.3.0 cpe:2.3:a:g.rodola:pyftpdlib:0.3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
g.rodola pyftpdlib 0.4.0 cpe:2.3:a:g.rodola:pyftpdlib:0.4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
g.rodola pyftpdlib 0.5.0 cpe:2.3:a:g.rodola:pyftpdlib:0.5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2010-3494

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