HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2009-3096

Windows vulnerability

CVSS
10.0
EPSS
3.6%
EPSS pct
88th
Exploited
No known
Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in HP Performance Insight 5.3 allow remote attackers to have an unknown impact, related to (1) a "Remote exploit" on Windows platforms, and (2) a "Remote preauthentication exploit" on the Windows Server 2003 SP2 platform, as demonstrated by certain modules in VulnDisco Pack Professional 8.11. NOTE: as of 20090903, this disclosure has no actionable information. However, because the VulnDisco Pack author is a reliable researcher, the issue is being assigned a CVE identifier for tracking purposes.
Affected vendor
Microsoft
Affected product
Windows
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Published
2009-09-08

Risk analysis

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

Its EPSS score of 3.6% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 88% of all scored CVEs.

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  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2009-3096.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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