CVE-2009-0075
Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 does not properly handle errors during attempted access to deleted objects, which allows remote attackers to…
- 9.3HighCVSS base score
- 84.6%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 0.3% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 7Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 does not properly handle errors during attempted access to deleted objects, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted HTML document, related to CFunctionPointer and the appending of document objects, aka "Uninitialized Memory Corruption Vulnerability."
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list a Metasploit module and 6 Exploit-DB entries for it. 4 references of the record are tagged as an exploit.
Show the exploits11
Metasploit modules1 module
- MS09-002 Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 CFunctionPointer Uninitialized Memory Corruption (Metasploit module) (opens in a new tab)
exploit/windows/browser/ms09_002_memory_corruptionRank normaldisclosed 10 Feb 2009
Exploit-DB6 entries
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 - CFunctionPointer Uninitialized Memory Corruption (MS09-002) (Metasploit) (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 16555remote, windowspublished 12 Jul 2010Verified
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 - Memory Corruption (MS09-002) (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 8152remote, windowspublished 4 Mar 2009Verified
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 (Windows XP SP2) - Memory Corruption (MS09-002) (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 8079remote, windowspublished 20 Feb 2009Verified
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 - Memory Corruption (MS09-002) (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 8080remote, windowspublished 20 Feb 2009Verified
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 (Windows 2003 SP2) - Memory Corruption (MS09-002) (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 8082remote, windowspublished 20 Feb 2009Verified
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 - Memory Corruption (PoC) (MS09-002) (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 8077dos, windowspublished 18 Feb 2009Verified
References tagged exploit4 references
- 8082 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- 8079 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- 8080 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- 8077 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
Modules, templates and exploits as listed by the Metasploit Framework (BSD-3-Clause), ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei templates (MIT) and the Exploit Database (GPLv2), read once a day. Where the data comes from
Timeline
ID reserved
By microsoft
- 33 days later
· 33 days later
Published
- 15 years later
· 15 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High9.3 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 84.6% · top 0.3% of all CVEs (12 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 9.3.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
References11
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:6000 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- 8082 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-09-011/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 33627 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- ADV-2009-0389 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 51839 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- 8079 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- 8080 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- 8077 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- TA09-041A (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERTx_transferred
- MS09-002 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MSx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2009-0084 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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