CVE-2009-4588
Heap-based buffer overflow in the WindsPlayerIE.View.1 ActiveX control in WindsPly.ocx 3.5.0.0 Beta, 3.0.0.5, and earlier in AwingSoft…
- 9.3HighCVSS base score
- 32.0%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 1.7% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 3Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Heap-based buffer overflow in the WindsPlayerIE.View.1 ActiveX control in WindsPly.ocx 3.5.0.0 Beta, 3.0.0.5, and earlier in AwingSoft Awakening Web3D Player and Winds3D Viewer allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or execute arbitrary code via a long SceneUrl property value, a different vulnerability than CVE-2009-2386. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list a Metasploit module and 2 Exploit-DB entries for it. A reference of the record is tagged as an exploit.
Show the exploits4
Metasploit modules1 module
- AwingSoft Winds3D Player SceneURL Buffer Overflow (Metasploit module) (opens in a new tab)
exploit/windows/browser/awingsoft_web3d_bofRank averagedisclosed 10 Jul 2009
Exploit-DB2 entries
- AwingSoft Winds3D Player - SceneURL Buffer Overflow (Metasploit) (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 16524remote, windowspublished 30 Apr 2010Verified
- AwingSoft Web3D Player - 'WindsPly.ocx' Remote Buffer Overflow (PoC) (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 9116dos, windowspublished 10 Jul 2009Verified
References tagged exploit1 reference
- 9116 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
Modules, templates and exploits as listed by the Metasploit Framework (BSD-3-Clause), ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei templates (MIT) and the Exploit Database (GPLv2), read once a day. Where the data comes from
Timeline
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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 | High9.3 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 32.0% · top 1.7% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 9.3.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
References4
- 35764 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- http://www.shinnai.net/exploits/nsGUdeley3EHfKEV690p.txt (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 9116 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- web3d-activex-bo(51672) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_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-2009-4554 (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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