CVE-2009-2495

Published Jul 29, 2009

Last updated 4 months ago

Overview

Description
The Active Template Library (ATL) in Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003 SP1, Visual Studio 2005 SP1 and 2008 Gold and SP1, and Visual C++ 2005 SP1 and 2008 Gold and SP1 does not properly enforce string termination, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via a crafted HTML document with an ATL (1) component or (2) control that triggers a buffer over-read, related to ATL headers and buffer allocation, aka "ATL Null String Vulnerability."
Source
secure@microsoft.com
NVD status
Modified
Products
visual_c\+\+, visual_studio, visual_studio_.net

Risk scores

CVSS 3.1

Type
Secondary
Base score
6.5
Impact score
3.6
Exploitability score
2.8
Vector string
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Severity
MEDIUM

CVSS 2.0

Type
Primary
Base score
7.8
Impact score
6.9
Exploitability score
10
Vector string
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov
CWE-200
134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0
CWE-126

Social media

Hype score
Not currently trending

Configurations

References

Sources include official advisories and independent security research.