CVE-2009-2473
23Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. It has a public proof of concept.
ssvc Attendepss 8.4%
from disclosure to weapon83 days
Published on NVDAug 21
1st PoC+83d
exploitation probability
8.4%top 6% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
1 public exploit(s)
neon before 0.28.6, when expat is used, does not properly detect recursion during entity expansion, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (memory and CPU consumption) via a crafted XML document containing a large number of nested entity references, a similar issue to CVE-2003-1564.
Affected products
n/a · n/apublic PoCs found — 1✓ VexDay Proof
exploitdb✓ VexDay Proofwww.exploit-db.com/exploits/10206⚠ Public resources, to assess the exposure of systems you control or are authorized to test. Test only with authorization.
References
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Nov/msg00000.htmlhttp://lists.manyfish.co.uk/pipermail/neon/2009-August/001044.htmlhttp://lists.manyfish.co.uk/pipermail/neon/2009-August/001045.htmlhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-11/msg00004.htmlhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0131.htmlhttp://secunia.com/advisories/36371https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/52633https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9461http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4435https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-August/msg00924.htmlhttps://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-August/msg00945.htmlhttp://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:221