Resource exhaustion in Microsoft Internet Explorer

CVE-2009-3267

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 through 6.0.2900.2180, and 7.0.6000.16711, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via an automatically submitted form containing a KEYGEN element, a related issue to CVE-2009-1828.

Vulnerability class: DoS (Denial of Service)

EPSS: 0.159 (96.6th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Microsoft Internet_explorer
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-400 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

References

cve@mitre.org (Tool Signature, signature, x_refsource_OVAL, vdb-entry)
cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ, VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, Broken Link)
cve@mitre.org (Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)