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CVE-2009-2668

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 14.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2009-08-05 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-399

Description

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 through 6.0.2900.2180 and 7 through 7.0.6000.16473 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via an XML document composed of a long series of start-tags with no corresponding end-tags, a related issue to CVE-2009-1232.

Affected products

• Microsoft Internet Explorer 11: 6, 7

References

• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2009-07/0193.html
• http://websecurity.com.ua/3216/
• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2009-07/0193.html
• http://websecurity.com.ua/3216/

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