Predictive Vulnerability Intelligence.

Product

  • Product
  • Pricing
  • Documentation

Company

  • About
  • Partnerships
  • Blog
  • Support

Legal

  • Terms
  • Privacy
  • Data Licensing

© 2026 FAUCET Technologies LLC. All rights reserved.

CVE-2009-0126

15
FAUCET Score

CVE-2009-0126 describes a vulnerability in the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) client versions 6.2.14 and 6.4.5. Specifically, the decrypt_public function fails to validate the return value from OpenSSL's RSA_public_decrypt function, allowing remote attackers to bypass certificate chain validation through a malformed SSL/TLS signature. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity with a network attack vector, low complexity, and potential for partial confidentiality impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
6.2.14CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:berkeley:boinc_client:6.2.14:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
6.4.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:berkeley:boinc_client:6.4.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.42%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
82.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0242 is in the 73rd percentile among its peer group of 23,701 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

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

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

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

Remediation

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2009-0126Important

boinc-client: Does not check the RSA_public_decrypt() return value.

Jan 11, 2009

References

boinc.berkeley.edu / trac/changeset/16883
boinc.berkeley.edu / trac/ticket/823
Vendor Advisory
bugs.debian.org / cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi
Exploit
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2009-02/msg00000.html
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2009/01/12/4
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Exploit
secunia.com / advisories/33806
secunia.com / advisories/33828
redhat.com / archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-February/msg00034.html