CVE-2009-1918
Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01 SP4 and 6 SP1; Internet Explorer 6 for Windows XP SP2 and SP3 and Server 2003 SP2; and Internet Explorer…
- 10.0HighCVSS base score
- 43.3%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 1.3% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01 SP4 and 6 SP1; Internet Explorer 6 for Windows XP SP2 and SP3 and Server 2003 SP2; and Internet Explorer 7 and 8 for Windows XP SP2 and SP3, Server 2003 SP2, Vista Gold, SP1, and SP2, and Server 2008 Gold and SP2 do not properly handle table operations, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted HTML document that triggers memory corruption by adding malformed elements to an empty DIV element, related to the getElementsByTagName method, aka "HTML Objects Memory Corruption Vulnerability."
Timeline
ID reserved
By microsoft
- 55 days later
· 55 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 | High10.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 43.3% · top 1.3% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 10.0.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
References9
- 1022611 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 20090805 ZDI-09-047: Microsoft Internet Explorer getElementsByTagName Memory Corruption Vulnerability (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 35826 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- ADV-2009-2033 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- MS09-034 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MSx_transferred
- http://support.nortel.com/go/main.jsp?cscat=BLTNDETAIL&id=953693 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5524 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- TA09-195A (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERTx_transferred
- http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-09-047 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_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-2009-1913 (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-2009-1918)Record last updated .