PT-2009-5590 · Microsoft · Winforms

Published 2009-09-21 · Updated 2018-10-10 · CVE-2009-3276

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions WinFormsAdvansed (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service, specifically CPU consumption, by providing a specially crafted input string. This string is composed of many alphabetic characters followed by a ! (exclamation point) and is related to a certain regular expression, which is described as a "ReDoS" vulnerability.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploit

Related Identifiers

CVE-2009-3276

Affected Products

Winforms

References · 3

• 🔥 http://checkmarx.com/Upload/Documents/PDF/Checkmarx_OWASP_IL_2009_ReDoS.pdf · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-3276 · Security Note
• http://securityfocus.com/archive/1/506419/100/0/threaded · Note