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CVE-2009-3591

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CVE-2009-3591 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Dopewars 1.5.12, allowing remote attackers to trigger a segmentation fault by sending a malformed REQUESTJET message with an invalid location. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity, as it can be exploited remotely with low complexity and without authentication, leading to a partial availability impact. While not listed on the KEV catalog, exploit modules are available in Metasploit and ExploitDB, confirming its exploitability. Despite the availability of exploit code, there is no evidence of active exploitation, and it has received minimal community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.5.12CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ben_webb:dopewars:1.5.12:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
52.84%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
98.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
Metasploit: Dopewars Denial of Service · Oct 5, 2009
ExploitDB: EDB-33269 · Oct 15, 2009
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.5284 is in the 99th 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

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2009-3591Moderate

dopewars: DoS via REQUESTJET message with an invalid location

Oct 6, 2009

References

dopewars.svn.sourceforge.net / viewvc/dopewars/dopewars/trunk/ChangeLog
Patch
dopewars.svn.sourceforge.net / viewvc/dopewars/dopewars/trunk/src/serverside.c
secunia.com / advisories/36961
Vendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / archive/1/507012/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / bid/36606
Exploit