CVE-2009-0789
MEDIUM · CVSS 5.0EPSS 2.6%EU EUVD
OpenSSL before 0.9.8k on WIN64 and certain other platforms does not properly handle a malformed ASN.1 structure, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (invalid memory access and application crash) by placing this structure in the public key of a certificate, as demonstrated by an RSA public key.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 5.0 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-189
- EPSS score
- 2.6% (85th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2009-0787)
- Published
- March 27, 2009
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2009-0787 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- openssl / openssl
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References
- ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2009-008.txt.asc
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Sep/msg00004.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-05/msg00000.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-07/msg00013.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-07/msg00014.html
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=124464882609472&w=2
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=127678688104458&w=2
- http://secunia.com/advisories/34411(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/34460(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/34666
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35065
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35380(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35729(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/36701(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/42724(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/42733(Vendor Advisory)
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1021906
- http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=671059&group_id=116847
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3865
- http://voodoo-circle.sourceforge.net/sa/sa-20090326-01.html
- http://www.openssl.org/news/secadv_20090325.txt(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.osvdb.org/52866
- http://www.php.net/archive/2009.php#id2009-04-08-1
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34256(Patch)
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0850(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1020(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1175(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1548(Vendor Advisory)
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/49433
- https://kb.bluecoat.com/index?page=content&id=SA50
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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