CVE-2009-0879

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 8.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2009-03-12 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-20

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.

Affected products

IBM Director: through 5.20.3; 3.1.1, 4.10, 4.11, 4.12, 4.20, 4.21 (+8)

References

http://osvdb.org/52615
http://secunia.com/advisories/34212
http://securitytracker.com/id?1021825
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/501638/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34061
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0656
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/49285
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/8190
https://www.sec-consult.com/files/20090305-1_IBM_director_DoS.txt
https://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/iwm/web/reg/download.do?source=dmp&S_PKG=director_x_520&S_TACT=sms&lang=en_US&cp=UTF-8
http://osvdb.org/52615
http://secunia.com/advisories/34212

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