{"cve":"CVE-2009-3627","nvd":{"published":"2009-10-29T14:30:01.203","modified":"2026-06-16T23:12:02.993","status":"Modified","description":"The decode_entities function in util.c in HTML-Parser before 3.63 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via an incomplete SGML numeric character reference, which triggers generation of an invalid UTF-8 character.","cvss_v4":null,"cvss_v3":null,"cwes":["CWE-20"],"references":["http://github.com/gisle/html-parser/commit/b9aae1e43eb2c8e989510187cff0ba3e996f9a4c","http://secunia.com/advisories/37155","http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/10/23/9","http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36807","http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3022"],"products":["derrick_oswald:html-parser"],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-19T19:54:26.868835795+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2009-3627","score":0.01727,"percentile":0.77569,"date":"2026-10-31"},"kev":null,"osv":[],"attribution":["This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.","EPSS scores: FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System, https://www.first.org/epss","Known exploited vulnerabilities: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","Package advisories: OSV (https://osv.dev), from the GitHub Advisory Database, PyPA, Go, RustSec and other ecosystem databases, under CC-BY 4.0 or CC0","CVE records: the CVE Program's CVE List (https://www.cve.org), under its terms of use (https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse). CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation; this product is not affiliated with the CVE Program."]}