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CVE-2009-0879

25
FAUCET Score

CVE-2009-0879 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting the CIM server in IBM Director before version 5.20.3 Service Update 2 on Windows. An unauthenticated remote attacker can crash the daemon by sending a specially crafted M-POST request with an excessively long consumer name to the /CIMListener/ URI. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity, with a low attack complexity and no authentication required, leading to a partial availability impact. While not observed in active exploitation, public exploit code exists on ExploitDB, and it has a high FAUCET Risk Score of 93/100, despite minimal community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 5.20.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:director:*:service_update_1:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.1.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:director:3.1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.10CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:director:4.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.11CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:director:4.11:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.12CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:director:4.12:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
8.22%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
94.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-8190 · Mar 10, 2009
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0823 is in the 93rd 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

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

osvdb.org / 52615
secunia.com / advisories/34212
Vendor Advisory
securitytracker.com / id
Vendor Advisory
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/49285
www14.software.ibm.com / webapp/iwm/web/reg/download.do
PatchVendor Advisory
exploit-db.com / exploits/8190
sec-consult.com / files/20090305-1_IBM_director_DoS.txt
Exploit
securityfocus.com / archive/1/501638/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / bid/34061
vupen.com / english/advisories/2009/0656
PatchVendor Advisory