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Fencer Vulns
critical 10.0

CVE-2009-0323 in the critical feed json

Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in W3C Amaya Web Browser 10.0 and 11.0 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via (1) a lon…

published 2009-01-28 17 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2009-0327

cvss
10.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
62.5%
EPSS 62.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 99.1%
public exploits
3
Metasploit, Exploit-DB

Summary

Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in W3C Amaya Web Browser 10.0 and 11.0 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via (1) a long type parameter in an input tag, which is not properly handled by the EndOfXmlAttributeValue function; (2) an "HTML GI" in a start tag, which is not properly handled by the ProcessStartGI function; and unspecified vectors in (3) html2thot.c and (4) xml2thot.c, related to the msgBuffer variable. NOTE: these are different vectors than CVE-2008-6005.

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (Metasploit exploit/windows/browser/amaya_bdo)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

62.49% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 99.1% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 10.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.