Is CVE-2010-2076 being actively exploited?

CVE-2010-2076 is not currently listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog.

What is the CVSS score for CVE-2010-2076?

CVE-2010-2076 has a CVSS 3.1 base score of 9.8 (CRITICAL).

CVE-2010-2076

CRITICAL · CVSS 9.8EPSS 9.8%EU EUVD

Apache CXF 2.0.x before 2.0.13, 2.1.x before 2.1.10, and 2.2.x before 2.2.9, as used in Apache ServiceMix, Apache Camel, Apache Chemistry, Apache jUDDI, Apache Geronimo, and other products, does not properly reject DTDs in SOAP messages, which allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files, send HTTP requests to intranet servers, or cause a denial of service (CPU and memory consumption) via a crafted DTD, as demonstrated by an entity declaration in a request to samples/wsdl_first_pure_xml, a similar issue to CVE-2010-1632.

Key facts

CVSS score: 9.8 (v3.1)
Severity: CRITICAL
CVSS vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness (CWE): CWE-829
EPSS score: 9.8% (96th percentile)
In CISA KEV: No
In EU EUVD: Yes (EUVD-2022-5318)
Published: August 19, 2010
NVD last modified: June 16, 2026
Status: Modified

EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)

This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2022-5318 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.

View on the EU Vulnerability Database

Affected products

apache / cxf

References

http://geronimo.apache.org/2010/07/21/apache-geronimo-v216-released.html(Vendor Advisory)
http://geronimo.apache.org/21x-security-report.html(Release Notes, Vendor Advisory)
http://geronimo.apache.org/22x-security-report.html(Release Notes, Vendor Advisory)
http://secunia.com/advisories/40969(Broken Link, Vendor Advisory)
http://secunia.com/advisories/41016(Broken Link, Vendor Advisory)
http://secunia.com/advisories/41025(Broken Link, Vendor Advisory)
http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/cxf/trunk/security/CVE-2010-2076.pdf(Exploit, Vendor Advisory)
http://www.listware.net/201006/cxf-users/60160-important-apache-cxf-security-advisory-cve-2010-2076.html(Broken Link)
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/42492(Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GERONIMO-5383(Third Party Advisory)
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r36e44ffc1a9b365327df62cdfaabe85b9a5637de102cea07d79b2dbf%40%3Ccommits.cxf.apache.org%3E(Mailing List, Patch)
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rc774278135816e7afc943dc9fc78eb0764f2c84a2b96470a0187315c%40%3Ccommits.cxf.apache.org%3E(Mailing List, Patch)
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rd49aabd984ed540c8ff7916d4d79405f3fa311d2fdbcf9ed307839a6%40%3Ccommits.cxf.apache.org%3E(Mailing List, Patch)
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rec7160382badd3ef4ad017a22f64a266c7188b9ba71394f0d321e2d4%40%3Ccommits.cxf.apache.org%3E(Mailing List, Patch)
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rfb87e0bf3995e7d560afeed750fac9329ff5f1ad49da365129b7f89e%40%3Ccommits.cxf.apache.org%3E(Mailing List, Patch)
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rff42cfa5e7d75b7c1af0e37589140a8f1999e578a75738740b244bd4%40%3Ccommits.cxf.apache.org%3E(Mailing List, Patch)

Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS

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