CVE-2010-5147: Websense Web Filter

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 1.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Remote Filtering component in Websense Web Security and Web Filter before 6.3.3 Hotfix 18 and 7.x before 7.1.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon exit) via a large volume of traffic.

Affected products

• Websense Websense Web Filter: up to and including 6.3.3; version 6.3.0 only; version 6.3.1 only; version 6.3.2 only; version 7.0 only; version 7.1 only
• Websense Websense Web Security: up to and including 6.3.3; version 6.3.0 only; version 6.3.1 only; version 6.3.2 only; version 7.0 only; version 7.1 only

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