CVE-2009-1497

Exp

Stack-based buffer overflow in srt2smi.exe in Gretech Online Movie Player (GOM Player) 2.1.16.4635 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or execute arbitrary code via a long string in an SRT file.

Published: 2009-05-01 Last update: 2026-04-23 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2009-1497 is rated High Exploit Risk (90.8/100): CVSS Critical severity, with high exploitation likelihood (EPSS 25.91%, 96th percentile). Core evidence: 2 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). EPSS rose +13.84% over the last day, indicating growing attacker interest. Mandatory action: Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

Risk is dynamic; we continuously reassess and refresh what is shown on this page as upstream context changes.

Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2009-1497

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
8370 exploit_db edb 2009-04-08 Exploit-DB ↗
nvd_ref exploit_tag Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2009-1497

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-01-04 12.07% 25.91% +13.84%
2 2025-11-17 11.56% 12.07% +0.51%
3 2025-09-20 11.56%

Full EPSS history (9 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2009-1497

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
9.3 2.0 HIGH
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
Access complexity (AC:M)
Exploitation needs some favorable conditions, but not exceptional ones.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:C)
Complete confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:C)
Complete integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:C)
Complete availability impact.
8.6 10.0 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2009-1497

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2009-1497

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
gomlab gom_player 2.1.16 cpe:2.3:a:gomlab:gom_player:2.1.16:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2009-1497

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