CVE-2010-5145: Websense Web Filter

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 1.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Websense Websense Web Filter: up to and including 6.3.0; version 7.0 only; version 7.1 only
• Websense Websense Web Security: up to and including 6.3.0; version 7.0 only; version 7.1 only

Published 2012-08-23. Last modified 2026-06-16.