CVE-2010-4181

Exp

Directory traversal vulnerability in Yaws 1.89 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via ..\ (dot dot backslash) and other sequences.

Published: 2010-11-04 Last update: 2026-04-29 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2010-4181 is rated High Exploit Risk (66.6/100): CVSS Medium severity, with high exploitation likelihood (EPSS 8.30%, 92th percentile). 2 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). 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-2010-4181

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
15371 exploit_db edb 2010-11-01 Exploit-DB ↗
— nvd_ref exploit_tag Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2010-4181

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 2025-07-14 8.85% 8.30% -0.55%
2 2025-03-30 14.13% 8.85% -5.28%
3 2025-03-29 — 14.13% —

Full EPSS history (12 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2010-4181

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:P/I:N/A:N 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:P)
Partial confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:N)
No integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:N)
No availability impact.
 10.0 2.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2010-4181

OS Trackers for CVE-2010-4181

vendor priority summary link
debian unimportant CVE-2010-4181 unimportant priority: Debian including 1 source packages (yaws), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2010-4181
ubuntu medium CVE-2010-4181 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (yaws), 22 status rows across 22 suites (artful, bionic, cosmic, dapper, hardy, karmic, lucid, maverick, natty, oneiric, precise, quantal, raring, saucy, trusty, upstream, utopic, vivid, wily, xenial, yakkety, zesty): ignored 17, not-affected 4, DNE 1. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2010-4181

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2010-4181

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
yaws yaws 1.89 cpe:2.3:a:yaws:yaws:1.89:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2010-4181

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