MEDIUM SEVERITY

CVE-2009-0237

Forefront Threat Management Gateway vulnerability

CVSS
4.3
EPSS
22.8%
EPSS pct
97th
Exploited
No known
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in cookieauth.dll in the HTML forms authentication component in Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway, Medium Business Edition (TMG MBE); and Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2006, 2006 Supportability Update, and 2006 SP1; allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via "authentication input" to this component, aka "Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability."
Affected vendor
Microsoft
Affected product
Forefront Threat Management Gateway
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-79 — Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Published
2009-04-15

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, medium attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to integrity.

Its EPSS score of 22.8% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 97% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2009-0237

  • Confirm whether Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2009-0237.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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