CVE record · CVE-2009-4488

Varnish 2.0.6 writes data to a log file without sanitizing non-printable characters, which might allow remote attackers to modify a window's title, or possibly execute arbitrary commands or overwrite…

CVSS 9.8 CriticalCriticalEPSS 0.13 · 96th percentile

Critical, because:

CVSS score 9.8: 9.0 or more.
CVSS score 9.8 (7.0 or more) and EPSS 0.13 (0.1 or more): a high score and a real chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: mitre) at 13 Jan 2010, 20:00 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
Vendor	Product	Versions
Not given	Not given	affected n/a

Identifiers: CVE-2009-4488
CNA: mitre
Weakness (CWE): CWE-1284
Tags: CWE-1284
Published: 13 Jan 2010
Updated: 21 Jan 2025

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

Score	Rating	CVSS	Vector	Source
9.8	Critical	3.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	ADP (CISA-ADP)

CISA KEV Not listed.
EPSS 0.13, the 96th percentile, on 10 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 13 Jan 2010. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

www.ush.it/team/ush/hack_httpd_escape/adv.txt
www.securityfocus.com/bid/37713 vdb-entrybid
www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/508830/100/0/threaded mailing-listbugtraq

Facts on this page come from the CVE List as the CNA published them, with CVSS from the sources named above, CISA KEV and FIRST EPSS. Vendors, products and versions are shown as the CNA wrote them. We don’t reproduce the CVE’s description.