CVE-2009-2655: Microsoft Internet Explorer

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 22.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

mshtml.dll in Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 and 8 on Windows XP SP3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) by calling the JavaScript findText method with a crafted Unicode string in the first argument, and only one additional argument, as demonstrated by a second argument of -1.

Affected products

• Microsoft Internet Explorer: version 7 only; version 8 only

Published 2009-08-03. Last modified 2026-06-16.