CVE-2009-2344
The web-based management interfaces in Sourcefire Defense Center (DC) and 3D Sensor before 4.8.2 allow remote authenticated users to gain…
- 9.0HighCVSS base score
- 9.3%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 4.6% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 1Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
The web-based management interfaces in Sourcefire Defense Center (DC) and 3D Sensor before 4.8.2 allow remote authenticated users to gain privileges via a $admin value for the admin parameter in an edit action to admin/user/user.cgi and unspecified other components.
Public exploit
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Exploit-DB1 entry
- Sourcefire 3D Sensor & Defense Center 4.8.x - Privilege Escalation (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 9074webapps, cgipublished 2 Jul 2009Verified
References tagged exploit1 reference
- 9074 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
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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 | High9.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 9.3% · top 4.6% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 9.0.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
6
- 35658 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 1022500 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 9074 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- 20090701 Sourcefire 3D Sensor and DC, privilege escalation vulnerability (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- ADV-2009-1785 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 35553 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_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-2009-2340 (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-2009-2344)Record last updated .