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CVE-2009-3159

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2009-3159 is an unspecified denial-of-service vulnerability affecting the rriDecompress function in IBM WebSphere MQ versions 7.0.0.0, 7.0.0.1, and 7.0.0.2. With a CVSS score of 7.8, it is considered highly severe, allowing unauthenticated remote attackers to cause a complete denial of service with low attack complexity. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
7.0.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:websphere_mq:7.0.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.0.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:websphere_mq:7.0.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.0.0.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:websphere_mq:7.0.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

7.8HIGH

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
6.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.53%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
83.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0253 is in the 70th percentile among its peer group of 51,551 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, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

secunia.com / advisories/36647
Vendor Advisory
www-01.ibm.com / support/docview.wss
PatchVendor Advisory
www-1.ibm.com / support/docview.wss
securityfocus.com / bid/36310
vupen.com / english/advisories/2009/2578
PatchVendor Advisory