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CVE-2009-4075

17
FAUCET Score

CVE-2009-4075 describes an unspecified denial-of-service vulnerability affecting the sshd service in Sun Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris versions snv_99 through snv_123. This flaw, stemming from a timeout mechanism issue, can lead to a daemon outage by triggering a "dangling sshd authentication thread." With a CVSS score of 5.0 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P), it represents a low-severity issue, indicating it can be exploited remotely with low complexity to cause 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 vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
snv_99CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:sun:opensolaris:snv_99:*:sparc:*:*:*:*:*
snv_99CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:sun:opensolaris:snv_99:*:x86:*:*:*:*:*
snv_100CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:sun:opensolaris:snv_100:*:sparc:*:*:*:*:*
snv_100CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:sun:opensolaris:snv_100:*:x86:*:*:*:*:*
snv_101CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:sun:opensolaris:snv_101:*:sparc:*:*:*:*:*

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
2.68%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
84.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0268 is in the 77th percentile among its peer group of 23,725 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

osvdb.org / 60498
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/54401
sunsolve.sun.com / search/document.do
Patch
sunsolve.sun.com / search/document.do
PatchVendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/37116
Patch
vupen.com / english/advisories/2009/3333