Vulnerability Report

CVE-2009-2281

RCE

Title: Umn Mapserver RCE

RCE

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2009-2281.

CWE Category CWE-119

Published Date Oct 23, 2009

Modified Date Apr 09, 2025

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 10.0 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

11.50%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2009-2281: Multiple heap-based buffer underflows in the readPostBody function in cgiutil.c in mapserv in MapServer 4.x through 4.10.4 and 5.x before 5.4.2 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via (1) a crafted Content-Length HTTP header or (2) a large HTTP request, related to an integer overflow that triggers a heap-based buffer overflow. NOTE: this issue reportedly exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2009-0840.

Impacted Vendors

university_of_minnesota 1

umn 1

osgeo 1

Reference Links

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mapserver/mapserver_4.10.0-5.1+etch4.diff.gz http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mapserver/mapserver_5.0.3-3+lenny4.diff.gz http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/browser/tags/rel-5-4-2/mapserver/HISTORY.TXT http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/ticket/2943 http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1914 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/07/01/1 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/07/01/6 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mapserver/mapserver_4.10.0-5.1+etch4.diff.gz http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mapserver/mapserver_5.0.3-3+lenny4.diff.gz http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/browser/tags/rel-5-4-2/mapserver/HISTORY.TXT http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/ticket/2943 http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1914 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/07/01/1 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/07/01/6

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

10.0

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2009-2281 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

April 09, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

October 23, 2009 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.