FKIE_CVE-2009-3275

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2009-09-21 19:30 - Updated: 2026-06-16 23:11
Severity
Summary
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.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.checkmarx.com/Upload/Documents/PDF/Checkmarx_OWASP_IL_2009_ReDoS.pdfExploit
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/506419/100/0/threaded
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.checkmarx.com/Upload/Documents/PDF/Checkmarx_OWASP_IL_2009_ReDoS.pdfExploit
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/506419/100/0/threaded
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
microsoft enterprise_library 3.1
microsoft enterprise_library 4.0
microsoft enterprise_library 4.1
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