CVE-2009-5132

high

Description

The Filtering Service in Websense Web Security and Web Filter before 6.3.1 Hotfix 106 and 7.x before 7.1 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (filtering outage) via a crafted URL.

References

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/78570

http://www.websense.com/content/support/library/web/v71/wws_pdfs/ws_releasenotes.pdf

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2012-08-26

Updated: 2026-06-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00436