Vulnerability Report

CVE-2009-1291

Title: Tibco Smartsockets RCE

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2009-1291.

CWE Category CWE-119
Published Date Apr 30, 2009
Modified Date Jun 16, 2026
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 10.0 CVSS v2.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
6.43%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2009-1291: 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.

Impacted Vendors

T
tibco 4

Reference Links

http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=785 http://secunia.com/advisories/34911 http://securitytracker.com/id?1022129 http://www.harmonysecurity.com/blog/2009/04/tibco-smartsockets-stack-buffer.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34754 http://www.tibco.com/multimedia/security_advisory_ems_tcm8-7558.txt http://www.tibco.com/multimedia/security_advisory_rtworks_tcm8-7559.txt http://www.tibco.com/multimedia/security_advisory_smartsockets_tcm8-7560.txt http://www.tibco.com/services/support/advisories/default.jsp http://www.tibco.com/services/support/advisories/smartsockets-sspfm-ems_advisory_20090428.jsp http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1198 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/50214 http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=785 http://secunia.com/advisories/34911 http://securitytracker.com/id?1022129 http://www.harmonysecurity.com/blog/2009/04/tibco-smartsockets-stack-buffer.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34754 http://www.tibco.com/multimedia/security_advisory_ems_tcm8-7558.txt http://www.tibco.com/multimedia/security_advisory_rtworks_tcm8-7559.txt http://www.tibco.com/multimedia/security_advisory_smartsockets_tcm8-7560.txt http://www.tibco.com/services/support/advisories/default.jsp http://www.tibco.com/services/support/advisories/smartsockets-sspfm-ems_advisory_20090428.jsp http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1198 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/50214
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity HIGH
10.0
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2009-1291 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A
Complexity N/A
Privileges N/A
Interaction NONE
CVSS Vector String AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.