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CVE-2009-1594Armorlogic Profense Web Application Firewall before 2.2.22, and 2.4.x before 2.4.4, does not properly implement the "positive model,"…
- 7.5HighCVSS base score
- 1.4%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 26% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Armorlogic Profense Web Application Firewall before 2.2.22, and 2.4.x before 2.4.4, does not properly implement the "positive model," which allows remote attackers to bypass certain protection mechanisms via a %0A (encoded newline), as demonstrated by a %0A in a cross-site scripting (XSS) attack URL.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 13 days later
· 13 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 | High7.5 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.4% · top 26% of all CVEs (12 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
References5
- profense-whitelist-security-bypass(50662) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- http://resources.enablesecurity.com/advisories/ES-20090500-profense.txt (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 35053 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 20090520 Armorlogic Profense Web Application Firewall 2.4 multiple vulnerabilities. (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- [websecurity] 20090519 [WEB SECURITY] Trustwave's SpiderLabs Security Advisory TWSL2009-001 and EnableSecurity Advisory ES-20090500 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_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-2009-1590 (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-2009-1594)Record last updated .