CVE-2009-2966

mediumpriority · track · 29EPSS 0.064 · 94 %ileexploit · functionalEUUS

grimoire priorityP1 · Urgent

Exploitable?

Public exploit

1 exploit · functional

Likely / severe?

6.40% (94th) EPSS

CVSS 4.3 · medium

Is it mine?

3 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

2 sources

enisa_euvd · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

avp.exe in Kaspersky Internet Security 9.0.0.459 and Anti-Virus 9.0.0.463 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption and network connectivity loss) via an HTTP URL request that contains a large number of dot "." characters.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

4.3

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · low–medium · 3.9–4.3

v2.04.3mediumAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:Pprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 8.6 · impact 2.9

v2.03.9lowAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P/E:POCsecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-399USprimary

exploits (1)

Public proof-of-concept and weaponised exploit code.

EDB-9537Kaspersky 2010 - Remote Memory Corruption / Denial of Service (PoC)functional · exploit_db

affected products (3)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
kaspersky kaspersky anti-virus= 9.0.0.463nvdUScpe:2.3:a:kaspersky:kaspersky_anti-virus:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
kaspersky kaspersky internet security= 9.0.0.459nvdUScpe:2.3:a:kaspersky:kaspersky_internet_security:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

also known as (2)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

enisa_euvd nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2009-08-25modified 2026-06-16

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references (18)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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