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CVE-2012-0439

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 39.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2013-02-24 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-94

Description

An ActiveX control in gwcls1.dll in the client in Novell GroupWise 8.0 before 8.0.3 HP2 and 2012 before SP1 HP1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via (1) a pointer argument to the SetEngine method or (2) an XPItem pointer argument to an unspecified method.

Affected products

• Novell GroupWise: 8.0, 8.00-hp1, 8.00-hp2, 8.00-hp3, 8.01, 8.01-hp (+8)

References

• http://www.novell.com/support/kb/doc.php?id=7011688
• http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-13-008/
• https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=712144
• https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=743674
• http://www.novell.com/support/kb/doc.php?id=7011688
• http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-13-008/
• https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=712144
• https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=743674

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