CVE-2009-2668

HighCVSS 7.8/10Last modified Jun 16, 2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 2.0 7.8/10AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Weakness enumeration

CWE-399

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published: Aug 5, 2009
Last modified: Jun 16, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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