# CVE-2010-4592: Denial of service in n/a

> Remote attackers can cause a denial of service by exhausting memory and crashing the daemon via repeated TCP connection attempts when HTTP Access Services is enabled.

- **Severity:** Medium 4.3 (`AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 22 Dec 2010
- **Updated:** 7 Aug 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-9q23-65gx-4jw8

## What is CVE-2010-4592?

CVE-2010-4592 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 22 Dec 2010. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

The Mobile Network Connections functionality in the Connection Manager in IBM Lotus Mobile Connect before 6.1.4, when HTTP Access Services (HTTP-AS) is enabled, does not properly handle failed attempts at establishing HTTP-TCP sessions, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and daemon crash) by making many TCP connection attempts.

Weakness: CWE-399

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2010-4592?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Ibm Lotus Mobile Connect.

## How do I fix CVE-2010-4592?

No fix has been published for CVE-2010-4592 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2010-4592 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2010-4592 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in n/a

- [CVE-2010-4595](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2010-4595/): Security feature bypass in n/a (medium 5.0)
- [CVE-2010-4591](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2010-4591/): Auth bypass in n/a (medium 4.4)
- [CVE-2011-4465](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2011-4465/): Cross-site scripting in n/a (medium 4.3)
- [CVE-2010-4590](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2010-4590/): Cross-site scripting in n/a (medium 4.3)
- [CVE-2010-4594](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2010-4594/): Denial of service in n/a (medium 4.3)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2010-4592 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2010-4592 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 22 Dec 2010. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2010-4592 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: n/a. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2010-4592/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2010-4592/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2010-4592
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2010-4592
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2010-4592

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