What is CVE-2009-5137?

CVE-2009-5137 is a vulnerability in Mini-Stream Castripper, classified under Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer. Published 2014-01-03.

Is CVE-2009-5137 known to be exploited?

1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Buffer overflow in Mini-Stream Castripper

CVE-2009-5137

Stack-based buffer overflow in Mini-stream CastRipper 2.50.70 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long URL in the [playlist] section in a .pls file, a different vector than CVE-2009-1667.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

Published 2014-01-03 · last modified 2026-06-16.

CVSS v2 metric

CVSS v2 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.038 (89.5th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 90th percentile — 89.5% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.039 · newest: 0.038 · change: -0.001

Affected products

Mini-Stream Castripper — versions 2.50.70

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

Public proof-of-concept exploits

ARPSyndicate/cve-scores

References

www.exploit-db.com/exploits/8663/ (Exploit, exploit)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2009-5137?: CVE-2009-5137 is a vulnerability in Mini-Stream Castripper, classified under Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer. Published 2014-01-03.
Is CVE-2009-5137 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.