CVE-2009-2692

Exploitation

Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.

SSVC decision

Not assessed by CISA

EPSS probability

14.63% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.

EPSS percentile

Equal to or higher than the score of 96.3% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.

NVD base score

7.8 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.

NVD CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

NVD analysis status

Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-16.

Red Hat severity

Important. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.

Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.

Published

2009-08-14 15:00Z17 YR AGO

Last updated

2024-08-07 05:59Z2 YR AGO

Reserved

2009-08-05

Assigning CNA

mitre

Record state

PUBLISHED

Severity

Not rated by the issuing CNA

CNA CVSS vector

Not published by the issuing CNA

Weaknesses

• CWE-908Use of Uninitialized ResourceBase
• CWE-476NULL Pointer DereferenceBase

Data version

5.1

Document digest

d10c335e3bb15de9ff28b818f4e52c6e2fa8b3bf0fb88c6b4e38dea1c65e634d

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