CVE-2009-4496 Details
Boa 0.94.14rc21 writes data to a log file without sanitizing non-printable characters, which might allow remote attackers to modify a window's title, or possibly execute arbitrary commands or overwrite files, via an HTTP request containing an escape sequence for a terminal emulator.
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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2009-4496
EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System): EPSS predicts the likelihood that a vulnerability will be exploited in the wild. A higher percentage means a greater chance of an exploit occurring. The EPSS model produces a probability score between 0 and 1 (0 and 100%).
12.08 Probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days (96th percentile)
CVSS score for CVE-2009-4496
CVSS (Common Vulnerability Scoring System): An open framework owned and managed by FIRST.Org, Inc. that assigns a numerical score from 0 to 10 to software vulnerabilities to indicate their severity.
5 Medium
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CVE-2009-4496 Global Footprint

Top 10 Identified Countries

Country Observations Percentage
KR 30,558 26.30%
TW 18,250 15.71%
VN 12,288 10.58%
JP 6,370 5.48%
UA 6,078 5.23%
US 5,767 4.96%
RU 4,925 4.24%
AR 3,818 3.29%
BR 2,527 2.18%
IT 2,426 2.09%

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CVE-2009-4496 Industry Footprint

Top 10 Identified Industries

*Service provider organizations (typically Technology and Telecommunications) are disproportionally represented in the results given their upstream ownership of end-user infrastructure. See our FAQs.

Industry* Observations Percentage
Telecommunications 31,417 89.31%
Technology 2,132 6.06%
Retail 422 1.20%
Utilities 322 0.92%
Government/Politics 193 0.55%
Media/Entertainment 126 0.36%
Engineering 103 0.29%
Education 100 0.28%
Consumer Goods 98 0.28%
Business Services 81 0.23%

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