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CVE-2009-0751

29
FAUCET Score

CVE-2009-0751 describes a Denial of Service vulnerability affecting Yaws versions prior to 1.80. This flaw allows remote attackers to consume excessive memory and crash the server by sending a request containing a large number of headers. With a CVSS score of 5.0 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P), it is a network-exploitable vulnerability requiring no authentication, leading to partial availability impact. While not observed in active exploitation (KEV: No), public exploit code exists (EDB-8148), and it has a high FAUCET Risk Score of 93/100, despite minimal community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 1.79CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:yaws:yaws:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.50CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:yaws:yaws:1.50:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.51CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:yaws:yaws:1.51:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.52CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:yaws:yaws:1.52:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.53CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:yaws:yaws:1.53:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

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

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

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
10.40%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
95.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-8148 · Mar 3, 2009
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.1040 is in the 94th percentile among its peer group of 23,701 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

secunia.com / advisories/33979
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/34239
exploit-db.com / exploits/8148
debian.org / security/2009/dsa-1740
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2009/02/19/1
securityfocus.com / bid/33834
vupen.com / english/advisories/2009/0590
yaws.hyber.org
Vendor Advisory