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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.0

CVE-2009-3591 json

Dopewars 1.5.12 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) via a REQUESTJET message with an invalid location.

published 2009-10-08 17 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2009-3572

cvss
5.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
52.8%
EPSS 52.8% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 98%
public exploits
3
Metasploit, Exploit-DB

Summary

Dopewars 1.5.12 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) via a REQUESTJET message with an invalid location.

Patch / fix

  • dopewars Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 1.5.12-9

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2009-3591

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-2009-3591 updated

dopewars: DoS via REQUESTJET message with an invalid location

  • 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. First public exploit (Metasploit auxiliary/dos/misc/dopewars)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

52.84% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 98% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

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.