CVE-2009-4875

MEDIUM 5.0CVE-2009-4875 · Published 26/05/2010 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2009-4875 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 5.0) vulnerability affecting fckeditor.java (frederico caldeira knabben).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 2.6%, higher than 85.2% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
fckeditor.java frederico_caldeira_knabben	`= 2.4`	No fix yet

Description

FCKeditor.Java 2.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a malformed request parameter that contains "ctrl" characters.

References

dev.fckeditor.net/ticket/3902
java.fckeditor.net/changes-report.html
secunia.com/advisories/35870 · Vendor Advisory
sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php
osvdb.org/56060
securityfocus.com/bid/35709
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/51738

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