How severe is CVE-2009-3960?

CVE-2009-3960 has a CVSS 3.1 base score of 6.5 (MEDIUM). EPSS estimates a 90.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days. It is listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.

CVE-2009-3960: Adobe BlazeDS Information Disclosure Vulnerability

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities

Adobe BlazeDS Information Disclosure Vulnerability is confirmed as actively exploited and is listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Added to KEV

2022-03-07

Remediation due

2022-09-07

Ransomware

Known use

Required action
Apply updates per vendor instructions.

CISA notes
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-3960

Description

Unspecified vulnerability in BlazeDS 3.2 and earlier, as used in LiveCycle 8.0.1, 8.2.1, and 9.0, LiveCycle Data Services 2.5.1, 2.6.1, and 3.0, Flex Data Services 2.0.1, and ColdFusion 7.0.2, 8.0, 8.0.1, and 9.0, allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via vectors that are associated with a request, and related to injected tags and external entity references in XML documents.

Severity

CVSS 3.1 · CISA6.5 MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

SSVC · CISA-ADP

Exploitationactive

Automatableno

Technical impactpartial

Exploitation Context

as of October 13, 2026

All KEV statistics→

CISA added CVE-2009-3960 to the KEV catalog 4,403 days after its CVE record was published.
It is one of 82 Adobe entries in the CISA KEV catalog, and one of 54 added in 2022.
Its current EPSS score (90.1%) is higher than that of 73% of CISA KEV entries.

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions
-	-	n/a

References

6 Links

Exploits & PoCs

41855

Third-party advisories

38543

Vulnerability databases

Other references

http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb10-05.html

Record Details

Published

2010-02-15

Last updated

2026-08-06

Assigner (CNA)

adobe

Credited to

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