CVE-2009-1885
Stack consumption vulnerability in validators/DTD/DTDScanner.cpp in Apache Xerces C++ 2.7.0 and 2.8.0 allows context-dependent attackers…
- 4.3MediumCVSS base score
- 5.3%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 7.3% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Stack consumption vulnerability in validators/DTD/DTDScanner.cpp in Apache Xerces C++ 2.7.0 and 2.8.0 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via vectors involving nested parentheses and invalid byte values in "simply nested DTD structures," as demonstrated by the Codenomicon XML fuzzing framework.
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 2 months later
· 2 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 | Medium4.3 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 5.3% · top 7.3% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.3.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
15
- 35986 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- http://www.networkworld.com/columnists/2009/080509-xml-flaw.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://www.cert.fi/en/reports/2009/vulnerability2009085.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://www.codenomicon.com/labs/xml/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- FEDORA-2009-8345 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- 36201 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- ADV-2009-2196 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/xerces/c/trunk/src/xercesc/validators/DTD/DTDScanner.cpp?r1=781488&r2=781487&pathrev=781488&view=patch (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- FEDORA-2009-8305 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- MDVSA-2009:223 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVAx_transferred
- xerces-c-dtd-dos(52321) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- FEDORA-2009-8350 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=rev&revision=781488 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=515515 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- FEDORA-2009-8332 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_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-2009-1880 (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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