CVE-2009-2655

medium Microsoft
CVSS v3 Base Score
4.3
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
EPSS Score
22.6%
Exploitation probability in 30 days
Top 4% most likely to be exploited
Attack Characteristics
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
M
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
P
Published: August 3, 2009 (6128 days ago)
Last Modified: April 23, 2026
Vendor: Microsoft
Source: NVD

Description

mshtml.dll in Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 and 8 on Windows XP SP3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) by calling the JavaScript findText method with a crafted Unicode string in the first argument, and only one additional argument, as demonstrated by a second argument of -1.

CWE

CWE-20

Affected Products

microsoft internet explorer

References

🔗 www.exploit-db.com 🔗 www.securityfocus.com 🔗 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com 🔗 oval.cisecurity.org 🔗 www.exploit-db.com