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CVE-2009-5098

29
FAUCET Score

CVE-2009-5098 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting the LunaSysMgr process in Palm Pre WebOS 1.1 and earlier. An attacker can trigger a crash by serving a malicious web page containing a long string after a refresh tag, specifically when the device is not in landscape mode, leading to a floating point exception. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.4, indicating a medium severity, with a network attack vector, high attack complexity, and a complete availability impact. While there is no evidence of active exploitation or Metasploit modules, exploit code is publicly available on ExploitDB, and it has received minimal community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 1.1.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:hp:palm_pre_webos:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.0.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:hp:palm_pre_webos:1.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.0.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:hp:palm_pre_webos:1.0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.0.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:hp:palm_pre_webos:1.0.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.4MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
HIGH
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
4.9
Impact Score
6.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
4.04%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
89.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-9956 · Oct 14, 2009
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0404 is in the 86th percentile among its peer group of 19,958 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 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

kb.palm.com / wps/portal/kb/na/pre/p100eww/sprint/solutions/article/50607_en.html
secunia.com / advisories/36936
Vendor Advisory
securityreason.com / securityalert/8373
tlhsecurity.blogspot.com / 2009/10/palm-pre-webos-version-11-floating.html
Exploit
securityfocus.com / archive/1/507126/100/0/threaded