KDE Konqueror allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a large integer value for the length property of a Select object, a related issue to CVE-2009-1692.
Conclusion & alert: CVE-2009-2537 is rated High Exploit Risk (60/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 3.61%). Core evidence: 1 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). 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.
| EDB-ID | Source | Kind | Published | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | nvd_ref | exploit_tag | Exploit-DB ↗ |
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 | 2025-03-30 | 6.13% | 3.61% | -2.52% |
| 2 | 2025-03-29 | 3.61% | 6.13% | +2.52% |
| 3 | 2025-03-17 | — | 3.61% | — |
Full EPSS history (7 records total)
CVSS metrics for this CVE.
| Base score | Version | Severity | Vector | Exploitability | Impact | Score source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4.3 | 2.0 | MEDIUM |
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8.6 | 2.9 | [email protected] |
| vendor | priority | summary | link |
|---|---|---|---|
redhat
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low | — | https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2009-2537 |
ubuntu
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low | CVE-2009-2537 low priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (kdebase), 5 status rows across 5 suites (dapper, hardy, intrepid, jaunty, upstream): ignored 4, needs-triage 1. | https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2009-2537 |
Red Hat does not consider a user-assisted crash of a client application such as Konqueror to be a security issue.