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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2009-2493

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; and Windows 2000 SP4, XP SP2 and SP3, Server 2003 SP2, Vista Gold, SP1, and SP2, and…

HIGH 8.8EPSS 37.8%

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EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 37.8%, higher than 98% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window.

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; and Windows 2000 SP4, XP SP2 and SP3, Server 2003 SP2, Vista Gold, SP1, and SP2, and Server 2008 Gold and SP2; does not properly restrict use of OleLoadFromStream in instantiating objects from data streams, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted HTML document with an ATL (1) component or (2) control, related to ATL headers and bypassing security policies, aka "ATL COM Initialization Vulnerability."

CVSS 3.1
8.8 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
37.76% probability · 98th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-264, CWE-94
Affected
microsoft/visual c\+\+ · microsoft/windows 2000 · microsoft/windows 2003 server · microsoft/windows server 2008 · microsoft/windows vista · microsoft/windows xp · microsoft/visual studio
Source
secure@microsoft.com

References

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.