CVE-2009-3896: F5 Nginx

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 10.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

src/http/ngx_http_parse.c in nginx (aka Engine X) 0.1.0 through 0.4.14, 0.5.x before 0.5.38, 0.6.x before 0.6.39, 0.7.x before 0.7.62, and 0.8.x before 0.8.14 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and worker process crash) via a long URI.

Affected products

• F5 Nginx: version 0.1.0 only; version 0.1.1 only; version 0.1.2 only; version 0.1.3 only; version 0.1.4 only; version 0.1.5 only; …
• Nginx Nginx: version 0.6.1516 only

Published 2009-11-24. Last modified 2026-06-16.