CVE-2010-3899

Exp

IBM OmniFind Enterprise Edition 8.x and 9.x performs web crawls with an unlimited recursion depth, which allows remote web servers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a crafted series of documents.

Published: 2010-11-12 Last update: 2026-06-16 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2010-3899 is rated High Exploit Risk (60.2/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 3.15%). Core evidence: 2 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). Mandatory action: Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

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

Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2010-3899

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
15476 exploit_db edb 2010-11-09 Exploit-DB ↗
nvd_ref exploit_tag Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2010-3899

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 8.84% 3.15% -5.69%
2 2026-01-19 10.87% 8.84% -2.04%
3 2025-07-22 10.87%

Full EPSS history (9 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2010-3899

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-2010-3899

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2010-3899

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
ibm omnifind 8.0 cpe:2.3:a:ibm:omnifind:8.0:-:enterprise:*:*:*:*:*
ibm omnifind 9.0 cpe:2.3:a:ibm:omnifind:9.0:-:enterprise:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2010-3899

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