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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2010-3899

IBM OmniFind Enterprise Edition 8.x and 9.x performs web crawls with an unlimited recursion depth, which allows remote web servers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a crafted series of documents.

EXPLOITMEDIUM 5.0EPSS 3.15%

Does this matter?

A public exploit is published in Exploit-DB, so the technical barrier is gone even though the severity is medium and EPSS is 3.1%. Treat it as high on anything reachable from the internet.

Description

IBM OmniFind Enterprise Edition 8.x and 9.x performs web crawls with an unlimited recursion depth, which allows remote web servers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a crafted series of documents.

CVSS 2.0
5.0 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
EPSS
3.15% probability · 88th percentile
Public exploits
1 in Exploit-DB · first 9 November 2010
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-399
Affected
ibm/omnifind
Source
cve@mitre.org
EPSS trend
0%3%5%26 October 2026: 3.15%26 October 202626 October 2026

EPSS 3.1% since 26 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.

Public exploits (1)

Entries in Exploit-DB that cite this CVE. Links go to the Exploit-DB page and to the file in the public repository; nothing is hosted here. A verified tick means the Exploit-DB team confirmed the exploit works against the stated version.

EDB-IDTitleTypePublishedVerified
EDB-15476source ↗IBM OmniFind Crawler - Denial of Servicemultiple · Fatih Kilicdos9 November 2010no

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