CVE-2009-5024: Viewvc

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 2.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

ViewVC before 1.1.11 allows remote attackers to bypass the cvsdb row_limit configuration setting, and consequently conduct resource-consumption attacks, via the limit parameter, as demonstrated by a "query revision history" request.

Affected products

• Viewvc Viewvc: up to and including 1.1.10; version 0.8 only; version 0.9 only; version 0.9.1 only; version 0.9.2 only; version 0.9.3 only; …

Published 2011-05-23. Last modified 2026-06-16.