CVE-2009-2495

high Microsoft
CVSS v3 Base Score
7.8
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N
EPSS Score
65.6%
Exploitation probability in 30 days
Top 1% most likely to be exploited
Attack Characteristics
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Confidentiality
C
Integrity
None
Availability
None
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 does not properly enforce string termination, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via a crafted HTML document with an ATL (1) component or (2) control that triggers a buffer over-read, related to ATL headers and buffer allocation, aka "ATL Null String Vulnerability."

CWE

CWE-200

Affected Products

microsoft visual c\+\+microsoft visual studiomicrosoft visual studio .net

References

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