CVE-2009-0850 — Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in BitDefender Internet Security 2009 allows user-assisted remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the filename of a virus-infected file, as demonstrated by a filename inside a (1) rar or (2) zip archive file

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Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in BitDefender Internet Security 2009 allows user-assisted remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the filename of a virus-infected file, as demonstrated by a filename inside a (1) rar or (2) zip archive file

Published Mar 9, 2009

4.3

MEDIUM

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 29.95%

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in BitDefender Internet Security 2009 allows user-assisted remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the filename of a virus-infected file, as demonstrated by a filename inside a (1) rar or (2) zip archive file.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

29.95% 0.29955

Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 2, 2026.

EPSS probability 0.29955

Score over time

2022–2026

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Percentile over time

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Table of values (9 key points)

Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 2, 2026	29.95% (0.29955)	98.16th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	29.95% (0.29955)	97.96th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	0.46% (0.00457)	61.88th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 17, 2024	18.39% (0.18391)	96.20th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	23.91% (0.23906)	95.80th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	1.21% (0.01213)	66.61th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 17, 2023	1.21% (0.01213)	66.22th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	1.21% (0.01213)	64.21th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	1.21% (0.01213)	40.54th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-79

Cross-site Scripting (XSS)

References (5)

http://secunia.com/advisories/34082
third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/501277/100/0/threaded
mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/501299/100/0/threaded
mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/33921
vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0557
vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENVendor Advisory

Link	Providers	Tags
http://secunia.com/advisories/34082		third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/501277/100/0/threaded		mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/501299/100/0/threaded		mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/33921		vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0557		vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENVendor Advisory

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Mar 9, 2009

Updated Aug 7, 2024

Reserved Mar 9, 2009

Link CVE-2009-0850

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 16, 2026

Link CVE-2009-0850

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2009-0850