CVE-2009-4658

medium

Published 2010-03-03 · Modified 2026-04-29

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

5.0

Description

Xerver 4.32 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via a non-numeric web port assignment in the management interface. NOTE: this can be leveraged by non-authenticated attackers using CVE-2009-4657.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-9717 dos windows verified

Dr_IDE · 2009-09-18

Xerver HTTP Server 4.32 - Remote Denial of Service

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
omidrouhani	xerver	`4.32`

References

CWEs

CWE-20

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.