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| Vulnerability ID | VCID-exfa-m9xw-wkap |
| Aliases |
CVE-2009-1955
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| Summary | A denial of service flaw was found in the bundled copy of the APR-util library Extensible Markup Language (XML) parser. A remote attacker could create a specially-crafted XML document that would cause excessive memory consumption when processed by the XML decoding engine. |
| Status | Published |
| Exploitability | 2.0 |
| Weighted Severity | 4.8 |
| Risk | 9.6 |
| Affected and Fixed Packages | Package Details |
| There are no known CWE. |
| Reference id | Reference type | URL |
|---|---|---|
| https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2009-1955.json | ||
| https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2009-1955 | ||
| https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-1955 | ||
| 504555 | https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=504555 | |
| CVE-2009-1955 | https://httpd.apache.org/security/json/CVE-2009-1955.json | |
| OSVDB-55057;CVE-2009-1955 | Exploit | https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb/-/blob/main/exploits/multiple/dos/8842.pl |
| RHSA-2009:1107 | https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009:1107 | |
| RHSA-2009:1108 | https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009:1108 | |
| RHSA-2009:1160 | https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009:1160 | |
| USN-786-1 | https://usn.ubuntu.com/786-1/ | |
| USN-787-1 | https://usn.ubuntu.com/787-1/ |
| Data source | Exploit-DB |
|---|---|
| Date added | May 31, 2009 |
| Description | Apache mod_dav / svn - Remote Denial of Service |
| Ransomware campaign use | Known |
| Source publication date | June 1, 2009 |
| Exploit type | dos |
| Platform | multiple |
| Percentile | 0.87189 |
| EPSS Score | 0.03518 |
| Published At | Aug. 17, 2025, 12:55 p.m. |
| Date | Actor | Action | Source | VulnerableCode Version |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-07-31T08:28:49.814427+00:00 | Apache HTTPD Importer | Import | https://httpd.apache.org/security/json/CVE-2009-1955.json | 37.0.0 |