THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2009-1291
HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2009-1291

Enterprise Message Service vulnerability

CVSS
10.0
EPSS
6.4%
EPSS pct
93th
Exploited
No known
Stack-based buffer overflow in TIBCO SmartSockets before 6.8.2, SmartSockets Product Family (aka RTworks) before 4.0.5, and Enterprise Message Service (EMS) 4.0.0 through 5.1.1, as used in SmartSockets Server and RTworks Server (aka RTserver), SmartSockets client libraries and add-on products, RTworks libraries and components, EMS Server (aka tibemsd), SmartMQ, iProcess Engine, ActiveMatrix products, and CA Enterprise Communicator, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via "inbound data," as demonstrated by requests to the UDP interface of the RTserver component, and data injection into the TCP stream to tibemsd.
Affected vendor
Tibco
Affected product
Enterprise Message Service
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within Memory Bounds
Published
2009-04-30

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to complete impact to confidentiality, complete impact to integrity, complete impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 6.4% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 93% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2009-1291

  • Confirm whether Tibco Enterprise Message Service is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2009-1291.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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