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CVE-2009-0879

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-20 Input Validation
Publication date:
12/03/2009
Last modified:
09/04/2025

Description

The CIM server in IBM Director before 5.20.3 Service Update 2 on Windows allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via a long consumer name, as demonstrated by an M-POST request to a long /CIMListener/ URI.

Impact

Vector 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 5.00 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): Physical

Base Score 2.0
5.00
Severity 2.0
MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:director:*:service_update_1:*:*:*:*:*:* 5.20.3 (including)
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:director:3.1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:director:4.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:director:4.11:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:director:4.12:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:director:4.20:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:director:4.21:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:director:4.22:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:director:5.10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:director:5.10.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:director:5.10.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:director:5.10.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:director:5.20.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:director:5.20.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:director:5.20.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page


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