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CVE-2009-2576
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0.2900.2180 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU and memory consumption)…
- 5.0MediumCVSS base score
- 14.9%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 3.3% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0.2900.2180 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU and memory consumption) via a long Unicode string argument to the write method, a related issue to CVE-2009-2479. NOTE: it was later reported that 7.0.6000.16473 and earlier are also affected.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
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 | Medium5.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 14.9% · top 3.3% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
6
- http://websecurity.com.ua/3338/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 20090725 DoS vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 20090725 Re: DoS vulnerabilities in Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera and Chrome (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 20090720 RE: DoS vulnerabilities in Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera and Chrome (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 20090719 DoS vulnerabilities in Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera and Chrome (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 20090720 Re: DoS vulnerabilities in Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera and Chrome (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_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-2009-2571 (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-2009-2576)Record last updated .