CVE-2009-2668

high · 7.8

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 through 6.0.2900.2180 and 7 through 7.0.6000.16473 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via an XML document composed of a long series of start-tags with no corresponding end-tags, a related issue to CVE-2009-1232.

7.8

CVSS

14.5%

EPSS (exploit prob.)

96th

EPSS percentile

2009-08-05

Published

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Weaknesses

CWE-399

Affected products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions
microsoft	internet_explorer	6
microsoft	internet_explorer	7

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References

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2009-07/0193.html
http://websecurity.com.ua/3216/
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2009-07/0193.html
http://websecurity.com.ua/3216/

Query this programmatically:

curl https://evil-db.io/api/v1/cve/CVE-2009-2668