CVE-2009-2668

high Microsoft
CVSS v3 Base Score
7.8
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
EPSS Score
23.2%
Exploitation probability in 30 days
Top 4% most likely to be exploited
Attack Characteristics
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
C
Published: August 5, 2009 (6126 days ago)
Last Modified: April 23, 2026
Vendor: Microsoft
Source: NVD

Description

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.

CWE

CWE-399

Affected Products

microsoft internet explorer

References

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