CVE-2009-2625

medium Apache
CVSS v3 Base Score
5.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
EPSS Score
1.2%
Exploitation probability in 30 days
Top 21% most likely to be exploited
Attack Characteristics
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
P
Published: August 6, 2009 (6125 days ago)
Last Modified: April 23, 2026
Vendor: Apache
Source: NVD

Description

XMLScanner.java in Apache Xerces2 Java, as used in Sun Java Runtime Environment (JRE) in JDK and JRE 6 before Update 15 and JDK and JRE 5.0 before Update 20, and in other products, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and application hang) via malformed XML input, as demonstrated by the Codenomicon XML fuzzing framework.

CWE

NVD-CWE-Other

Affected Products

oracle jdkfedoraproject fedoraopensuse opensusesuse linux enterprise serverdebian debian linuxcanonical ubuntu linuxoracle primavera p6 enterprise project portfolio managementoracle primavera web servicesapache xerces2 java

References

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