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CVE-2009-3275

16
FAUCET Score

CVE-2009-3275 is a Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) vulnerability affecting Microsoft patterns & practices Enterprise Library. An attacker can exploit this by providing a specially crafted input string containing numerous backslashes followed by a double quote, leading to high CPU consumption and a denial of service. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity with a network attack vector, low attack complexity, and potential for partial availability 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
3.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:enterprise_library:3.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:enterprise_library:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:enterprise_library:4.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
3.52%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
88.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0352 is in the 84th percentile among its peer group of 23,690 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

checkmarx.com / Upload/Documents/PDF/Checkmarx_OWASP_IL_2009_ReDoS.pdf
Exploit
securityfocus.com / archive/1/506419/100/0/threaded