CVE-2009-1885

mediumpriority · track · 19EPSS 0.053 · 93 %ileEUUS
grimoire priorityP3 · Track
Exploitable?
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no known exploitation
Likely / severe?
5.32% (93rd) EPSS
CVSS 4.3 · medium
Is it mine?
3 products
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Who says so?
2 sources
enisa_euvd · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-28

Stack consumption vulnerability in validators/DTD/DTDScanner.cpp in Apache Xerces C++ 2.7.0 and 2.8.0 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via vectors involving nested parentheses and invalid byte values in "simply nested DTD structures," as demonstrated by the Codenomicon XML fuzzing framework.

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4.3
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base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · low–medium · 3.7–4.3

v2.04.3mediumAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:Pprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 8.6 · impact 2.9
v2.03.7lowAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)
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affected products (3)

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also known as (2)

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published 2009-08-11modified 2026-06-16
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