CVE-2010-3616
MEDIUM · CVSS 5.0EPSS 7.9%EU EUVD
ISC DHCP server 4.2 before 4.2.0-P2, when configured to use failover partnerships, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (communications-interrupted state and DHCP client service loss) by connecting to a port that is only intended for a failover peer, as demonstrated by a Nagios check_tcp process check to TCP port 520.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 5.0 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-20
- EPSS score
- 7.9% (95th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2010-3612)
- Published
- December 17, 2010
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2010-3612 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- isc / dhcp
- isc / dhcp
References
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-December/052329.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/42618(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/42682
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/159528(US Government Resource)
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:001
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45360
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1024862
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/3208(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0052
- https://lists.isc.org/pipermail/dhcp-users/2010-December/012368.html
- https://www.isc.org/software/dhcp/advisories/cve-2010-3616(Vendor Advisory)
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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