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CVE-2017-1720

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.3 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2018-02-13 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-77

Description

IBM Notes 8.5 and 9.0 could allow a local attacker to execute arbitrary commands by carefully crafting a command line sent via the shared memory IPC. IBM X-Force ID: 134807.

Affected products

• IBM Client Application Access: 1.0.1.0, 1.0.1.1, 1.0.1.1-interim_fix_1, 1.0.1.2-interim_fix_1
• IBM Notes: 8.5.0.0, 8.5.1.0, 8.5.2.0, 8.5.3.0, 9.0.0.0, 9.0.1.0

References

• http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg22010766
• http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg22010767
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/134807
• http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg22010766
• http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg22010767
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/134807

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