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CVE-2009-2173

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2009-2173 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting the LAN game feature in Carom3D version 5.06, where a remote authenticated attacker can cause an application hang through a crafted HTTP request to TCP port 28012. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 3.5, indicating a low severity, as it requires authentication and medium attack complexity to achieve a partial availability impact. While not listed in CISA's KEV catalog, exploit code for a buffer overrun/denial of service exists on ExploitDB, and it has received minimal community discussion.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
5.06CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gameis:carom3d:5.06:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

3.5LOW

AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
SINGLE
Exploitability Score
6.8
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.95%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
78.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-8971 · Jun 16, 2009
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0195 is in the 89th percentile among its peer group of 1,637 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, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 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

exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/51219
exploit-db.com / exploits/8971