Vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer
CVE-2009-1531
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 via frequent calls to the getElementsByTagName function combined with the creation of an object during reordering of elements, followed by an onreadystatechange event, which triggers an access of an object that (1) was not properly initialized or (2) is deleted, aka "HTML Object Memory Corruption Vulnerability."
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 9.3 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.351 (98.4th percentile), scored .
Moderate probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — watch for active exploitation reports. 98th percentile — 98.4% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.351 · newest: 0.351 · change: 0.000
Affected products
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1538 (vdb-entry, Vendor Advisory)
- docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2009/ms09-019 (vendor-advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/504216/100/0/threaded (mailing-list)
- www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-09-039
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/35234 (vdb-entry)
- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval:org.mitre.oval:def:6308 (signature, vdb-entry)
- osvdb.org/54950 (vdb-entry)
- www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA09-160A.html (US Government Resource, third-party-advisory)
- www.securitytracker.com/id (vdb-entry)