CVE-2009-2493

critical Microsoft
CVSS v3 Base Score
9.3
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
EPSS Score
56.6%
Exploitation probability in 30 days
Top 2% most likely to be exploited
Attack Characteristics
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
M
Confidentiality
C
Integrity
C
Availability
C
Published: July 29, 2009 (6133 days ago)
Last Modified: April 23, 2026
Vendor: Microsoft
Source: NVD

Description

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."

CWE

CWE-264

Affected Products

microsoft visual c\+\+microsoft windows 2000microsoft windows 2003 servermicrosoft windows server 2008microsoft windows vistamicrosoft windows xpmicrosoft visual studio

References

🔗 blogs.technet.com 🔗 lists.opensuse.org 🔗 marc.info 🔗 secunia.com 🔗 secunia.com