CVE-2009-2954

medium Microsoft
CVSS v3 Base Score
5.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
EPSS Score
13.7%
Exploitation probability in 30 days
Top 6% most likely to be exploited
Attack Characteristics
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
P
Published: August 24, 2009 (6107 days ago)
Last Modified: April 23, 2026
Vendor: Microsoft
Source: NVD

Description

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0.2900.2180 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption and application hang) via JavaScript code with a long string value for the hash property (aka location.hash), a related issue to CVE-2008-5715.

CWE

CWE-20

Affected Products

microsoft internet explorer

References

🔗 websecurity.com.ua 🔗 www.securityfocus.com 🔗 websecurity.com.ua 🔗 www.securityfocus.com