CVE-2009-1190

mediumpriority · track · 21EPSS 0.028 · 86 %ileEUUS
grimoire priorityP3 · Track
Exploitable?
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no known exploitation
Likely / severe?
2.80% (86th) EPSS
CVSS 5 · medium
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81 products
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3 sources
enisa_euvd · nvd · osv

EPSS · scored 2026-10-28

Algorithmic complexity vulnerability in the java.util.regex.Pattern.compile method in Sun Java Development Kit (JDK) before 1.6, when used with spring.jar in SpringSource Spring Framework 1.1.0 through 2.5.6 and 3.0.0.M1 through 3.0.0.M2 and dm Server 1.0.0 through 1.0.2, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via serializable data with a long regex string containing multiple optional groups, a related issue to CVE-2004-2540.

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5.0
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v2.05mediumAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:Pprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 10 · impact 2.9
v2.04.3mediumAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)
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affected products (81)

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advisories (1)

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  • GHSA-wjjr-h4wh-w6vvSpring Framework Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity2022-05-02ghsa · osvUS

    Algorithmic complexity vulnerability in the java.util.regex.Pattern.compile method in Sun Java Development Kit (JDK) before 1.6, when used with spring.jar in SpringSource Spring Framework 1.1.0 through 2.5.6 and 3.0.0.M1 through 3.0.0.M2 and dm Server 1.0.0 through 1.0.2, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via serializable data with a long regex string containing multiple optional groups, a related issue to CVE-2004-2540.

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published 2009-04-27modified 2026-06-16
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