CVE-2009-0089
Windows HTTP Services (aka WinHTTP) in Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4, XP SP2 and SP3, Server 2003 SP1 and SP2, and Vista Gold allows remote…
- 5.8MediumCVSS base score
- 5.1%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 7.6% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Windows HTTP Services (aka WinHTTP) in Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4, XP SP2 and SP3, Server 2003 SP1 and SP2, and Vista Gold allows remote web servers to impersonate arbitrary https web sites by using DNS spoofing to "forward a connection" to a different https web site that has a valid certificate matching its own domain name, but not a certificate matching the domain name of the host requested by the user, aka "Windows HTTP Services Certificate Name Mismatch Vulnerability."
Timeline
ID reserved
By microsoft
- 3 months later
· 3 months 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 | Medium5.8 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 5.1% · top 7.6% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.8.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
7
- 34437 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:6027 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- 34677 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- TA09-104A (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERTx_transferred
- 1022041 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- ADV-2009-1027 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- MS09-013 (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-2009-0098 (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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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2009-0089)Record last updated .