CVE-2009-1530

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 33.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2009-06-10 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP SP2 and SP3; 7 for Server 2003 SP2; 7 for Vista Gold, SP1, and SP2; and 7 for Server 2008 SP2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by repeatedly adding HTML document nodes and calling event handlers, which triggers an access of an object that (1) was not properly initialized or (2) is deleted, aka "HTML Objects Memory Corruption Vulnerability."

Affected products

Microsoft Internet Explorer 11: 6, 7, 6-sp1, 5.01, 5.01-sp4, 8

References

http://osvdb.org/54949
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/504209/100/0/threaded
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1022350
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA09-160A.html
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1538
http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-09-038
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2009/ms09-019
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6294
http://osvdb.org/54949
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/504209/100/0/threaded
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1022350
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA09-160A.html

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