CVE-2009-1918
Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01 SP4 and 6 SP1; Internet Explorer 6 for Windows XP SP2 and SP3 and Server 2003 SP2; and Internet Explorer 7 and 8 for Windows XP SP2 and SP3, Server 2003 SP2, Vista Gold, SP1, and SP2, and Server 2008 Gold and SP2 do not properly handle table operations, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted HTML document that triggers memory corruption by adding malformed elements to an empty DIV element, related to the getElementsByTagName method, aka "HTML Objects Memory Corruption Vulnerability."
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 10.0 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-94
- EPSS score
- 43.3% (99th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2009-1913)
- Published
- July 29, 2009
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2009-1913 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- microsoft / internet explorer
- microsoft / internet explorer
- microsoft / internet explorer
- microsoft / internet explorer
- microsoft / internet explorer
- microsoft / windows 2000
- microsoft / windows server 2003
- microsoft / windows server 2008
- microsoft / windows server 2008
- microsoft / windows server 2008
- microsoft / windows server 2008
- microsoft / windows server 2008
- microsoft / windows server 2008
- microsoft / windows vista
- microsoft / windows vista
- microsoft / windows vista
- microsoft / windows xp
- microsoft / windows xp
- microsoft / windows xp
- microsoft / windows xp
- microsoft / windows xp
References
- http://support.nortel.com/go/main.jsp?cscat=BLTNDETAIL&id=953693
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/505523/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35826
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1022611
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA09-195A.html(US Government Resource)
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2033
- http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-09-047
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2009/ms09-034
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5524
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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