CVE-2009-2829 — Event Monitor in Apple Mac OS X 10.5.8 does not properly handle crafted authentication data sent to an SSH daemon, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via vectors involving processing of XML log documents by other services, related to a "log injection" issue

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Event Monitor in Apple Mac OS X 10.5.8 does not properly handle crafted authentication data sent to an SSH daemon, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via vectors involving processing of XML log documents by other services, related to a "log injection" issue

Published Nov 10, 2009

5.0

MEDIUM

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 2.34%

Description

Event Monitor in Apple Mac OS X 10.5.8 does not properly handle crafted authentication data sent to an SSH daemon, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via vectors involving processing of XML log documents by other services, related to a "log injection" issue.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

2.34% 0.02340

Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.

EPSS probability 0.02340

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 (11 key points)

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

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	2.34% (0.02340)	83.00th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	2.34% (0.02340)	81.34th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	0.75% (0.00747)	71.35th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.77% (0.00769)	81.94th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Feb 13, 2024	0.77% (0.00769)	80.67th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Feb 8, 2024	0.54% (0.00543)	76.66th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.54% (0.00543)	73.84th	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-255

References (4)

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Nov/msg00000.html
vendor-advisoryx_refsource_APPLEVendor Advisory
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3937
x_refsource_CONFIRMPatchVendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36956
vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDPatch
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3184
vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN

Link	Providers	Tags
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Nov/msg00000.html		vendor-advisoryx_refsource_APPLEVendor Advisory
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3937		x_refsource_CONFIRMPatchVendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36956		vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDPatch
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3184		vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Nov 10, 2009

Updated Aug 7, 2024

Reserved Aug 17, 2009

Link CVE-2009-2829

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 16, 2026

Link CVE-2009-2829

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2009-2829