CVE-2009-0433

Severity: low (CVSS 2.6 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2009-02-10 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Unspecified vulnerability in IBM WebSphere Application Server (WAS) 5.1.x before 5.1.1.19, 6.0.x before 6.0.2.29, and 6.1.x before 6.1.0.19, when Web Server plug-in content buffering is enabled, allows attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via unknown vectors, related to a mishandling of client read failures in which clients receive many 500 HTTP error responses and backend servers are incorrectly labeled as down.

Affected products

IBM WebSphere Application Server: 5.1.0, 5.1.0.2, 5.1.0.3, 5.1.0.4, 5.1.0.5, 5.1.1 (+67)

References

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1PK67161
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg27006879
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg27007033
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg27007951
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1PK63499
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/33700
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/48523
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1PK67161
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg27006879
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg27007033
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg27007951
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1PK63499

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