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high 7.5

CVE-2009-2629 in the critical feed json

Buffer underflow in src/http/ngx_http_parse.c in nginx 0.1.0 through 0.5.37, 0.6.x before 0.6.39, 0.7.x before 0.7.62, and 0.8.x before 0.8…

published 2009-09-15 17 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2009-2623

cvss
7.5
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
75.1%
EPSS 75.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 99.5%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

Buffer underflow in src/http/ngx_http_parse.c in nginx 0.1.0 through 0.5.37, 0.6.x before 0.6.39, 0.7.x before 0.7.62, and 0.8.x before 0.8.15 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted HTTP requests.

Patch / fix

  • f5 nginx 0.5.38, 0.6.39, 0.7.62, 0.8.15
  • nginx Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 0.7.61-3

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2009-2629

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2009-2629 updated

nginx: ngx_http_parse_complex_uri() buffer underflow vulnerability (VU#180065)

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Timeline

  1. Published
  2. First public exploit (EDB-14830)

Exploit prediction

75.08% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 99.5% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-14830 Nginx 0.6.38 - Heap Corruption local, 2010-08-29

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Classification

Weakness
Technology feeds

References

Sources

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