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CVE-2010-2093

Status: ModifiedMedium (5)—
Severity5Medium · CVSS 2.0
Exploitation probability1.85 %higher than 79% of CVEs
Active exploitationNonot in the CISA catalog
Public exploitNot knownno public code found

Use-after-free vulnerability in the request shutdown functionality in PHP 5.2 before 5.2.13 and 5.3 before 5.3.2 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a stream context structure that is freed before destruction occurs.

CVSS

Base score
5
Version
2.0
Vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Exploitation probability (EPSS)

Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
1.85 %
Percentile among all scored CVEs
79
Score date
10/23/2026

EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, FIRST) estimates how likely a vulnerability is to be exploited in the wild within 30 days. It complements CVSS (impact) and CISA KEV (confirmed exploitation).

Affected technologies (1)

PHP — PHP

CWEs

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