CVE-2009-2954: Microsoft Internet Explorer

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 13.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0.2900.2180 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption and application hang) via JavaScript code with a long string value for the hash property (aka location.hash), a related issue to CVE-2008-5715.

Affected products

• Microsoft Internet Explorer: up to and including 6.0.2900.2180; version 3.0 only; version 3.0.1 only; version 3.0.2 only; version 3.1 only; version 3.2 only; …

Published 2009-08-24. Last modified 2026-06-16.