CVE-2009-2954 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0.2900.2180 and earlier versions. This flaw allows remote attackers to cause high CPU consumption and application hangs by providing a long string value to the 'location.hash' property via JavaScript. With a CVSS score of 5.0, this vulnerability is considered medium severity, requiring no authentication and having low attack complexity, but only resulting in 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.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 6.0.2900.2180CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_explorer:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
3.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_explorer:3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
3.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_explorer:3.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
3.0.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_explorer:3.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
3.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_explorer:3.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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.
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 records are not available for this CVE.