CVE-2010-5145

The Filtering Service in Websense Web Security and Web Filter before 6.3.1 Hotfix 136 and 7.x before 7.1.1 on Windows allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (filtering outage) via a crafted sequence of characters in a URI.

Published: 2012-08-23 Last update: 2026-06-16 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2010-5145 is rated Moderate Risk (41.5/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 1.32%). Review affected assets and schedule remediation.

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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2010-5145

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 0.46% 1.32% +0.86%
2 2026-05-13 0.42% 0.46% +0.04%
3 2026-01-01 — 0.42% —

Full EPSS history (25 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2010-5145

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-2010-5145

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2010-5145

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
websense websense_web_filter <= 6.3.0 cpe:2.3:a:websense:websense_web_filter:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
websense websense_web_filter 7.0 cpe:2.3:a:websense:websense_web_filter:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
websense websense_web_filter 7.1 cpe:2.3:a:websense:websense_web_filter:7.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
websense websense_web_security <= 6.3.0 cpe:2.3:a:websense:websense_web_security:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
websense websense_web_security 7.0 cpe:2.3:a:websense:websense_web_security:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
websense websense_web_security 7.1 cpe:2.3:a:websense:websense_web_security:7.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2010-5145

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