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CVE-2009-0059

21
FAUCET Score

CVE-2009-0059 is a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Cisco Wireless LAN Controllers (WLC), Catalyst 6500 WiSM, and Catalyst 3750 Integrated WLC running specific software versions. A remote attacker can trigger a device reload by sending a malformed POST request to login.html during a web authentication session. With a CVSS score of 7.8, this vulnerability is considered high severity due to its network-based attack vector, low attack complexity, and complete availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
4.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:h:cisco:4400_wireless_lan_controller:4.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:h:cisco:4400_wireless_lan_controller:4.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
5.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:h:cisco:4400_wireless_lan_controller:5.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:h:cisco:catalyst_3750_series_integrated_wireless_lan_controller:4.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:h:cisco:catalyst_3750_series_integrated_wireless_lan_controller:4.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

7.8HIGH

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
6.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.93%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
77.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0193 is in the 61st percentile among its peer group of 51,485 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

secunia.com / advisories/33749
cisco.com / en/US/products/products_security_advisory09186a0080a6c1dd.shtml
Vendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/33608
securitytracker.com / id