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CVE-2010-5145

Status: ModifiedMedium (4.3)—

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.

CVSS

Exploitation probability (EPSS)

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 (2)

Websense — Websense WEB FilterWebsense — Websense WEB Security

CWEs

References

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