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CVE-2009-2493

high · 8.8

The Active Template Library (ATL) in Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003 SP1, Visual Studio 2005 SP1 and 2008 Gold and SP1, and Visual C++ 2005 SP1 and 2008 Gold and SP1; and Windows 2000 SP4, XP SP2 and SP3, Server 2003 SP2, Vista Gold, SP1, and SP2, and Server 2008 Gold and SP2; does not properly restrict use of OleLoadFromStream in instantiating objects from data streams, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted HTML document with an ATL (1) component or (2) control, related to ATL headers and bypassing security policies, aka "ATL COM Initialization Vulnerability."

8.8
CVSS
37.8%
EPSS (exploit prob.)
98th
EPSS percentile
2009-07-29
Published

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weaknesses

CWE-264CWE-94

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
microsoftvisual_c++2005
microsoftvisual_c++2008
microsoftvisual_c++2008
microsoftwindows_2000all versions
microsoftwindows_2003_serverall versions
microsoftwindows_server_2008all versions
microsoftwindows_server_2008all versions
microsoftwindows_vistaall versions
microsoftwindows_vistaall versions
microsoftwindows_vistaall versions
microsoftwindows_xpall versions
microsoftwindows_xpall versions
microsoftvisual_studio2003
microsoftvisual_studio2005
microsoftvisual_studio2008
microsoftvisual_studio2008

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References

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