CVE-2009-4754

Exp

Stack-based buffer overflow in Mercury Audio Player 1.21 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long string in a malformed playlist (.m3u) file.

Published: 2010-03-29 Last update: 2026-04-29 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2009-4754 is rated High Exploit Risk (91.2/100): CVSS Critical severity, with high exploitation likelihood (EPSS 34.12%, 97th percentile). Core evidence: 3 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). EPSS rose +5.64% 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-2009-4754

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
8583 exploit_db edb 2009-05-01 Exploit-DB ↗
8578 exploit_db edb 2009-04-30 Exploit-DB ↗
nvd_ref exploit_tag Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2009-4754

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 2026-05-22 28.47% 34.12% +5.64%
2 2026-01-06 10.09% 28.47% +18.39%
3 2025-08-20 10.09%

Full EPSS history (14 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2009-4754

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-2009-4754

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2009-4754

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
mercuryaudio audio_player 1.21 cpe:2.3:a:mercuryaudio:audio_player:1.21:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2009-4754

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