CVEvulnerability
CVE-2009-3275
5.0 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2009-09-21
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-134
Description
Blocks/Common/Src/Configuration/Manageability/Adm/AdmContentBuilder.cs in Microsoft patterns & practices Enterprise Library (aka EntLib) allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via an input string composed of many \ (backslash) characters followed by a " (double quote), related to a certain regular expression, aka a "ReDoS" vulnerability.
Affected configurations
• microsoft enterprise library 3.1
• microsoft enterprise library 4.0
• microsoft enterprise library 4.1
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-134 Use of Externally-Controlled Format String weakness
References
- http://www.checkmarx.com/Upload/Documents/PDF/Checkmarx_OWASP_IL_2009_ReDoS.pdf Exploit
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/506419/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.checkmarx.com/Upload/Documents/PDF/Checkmarx_OWASP_IL_2009_ReDoS.pdf Exploit
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/506419/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com