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CVE-2009-4587

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2009-4587 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Cherokee Web Server version 0.5.4, allowing remote attackers to crash the daemon by including an MS-DOS reserved word like "AUX" in a 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 no active exploitation is noted, exploit code is publicly available on ExploitDB, though there is minimal community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
0.5.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:cherokee:cherokee:0.5.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
4.12%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
89.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-9874 · Oct 26, 2009
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0412 is in the 86th 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

exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/53957
securityfocus.com / archive/1/507456/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / archive/1/507651/100/0/thread
securityfocus.com / bid/36814
securitytracker.com / id
xc0re.wordpress.com / 2009/10/25/cherokee-web-server-0-5-4-denial-of-service
Exploit