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CVE-2009-1291

Published: Apr 30, 2009Updated: Apr 23, 2026 Sources: CVE List NVDCWE-119
10.0CRITICAL
NVD MITRE
EPSS Score
6.4%
Top 7.0%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploits
No Known Exploits
Remediation
Patch Available
Self-Check
Not available

Description

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.

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CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV:NAC:LAu:NC:CI:CA:C
Exploitability
AV:NAccess Vector
Network
AC:LAccess Complexity
Low
Au:NAuthentication
None
Impact
C:CConfidentiality
Complete
I:CIntegrity
Complete
A:CAvailability
Complete
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Weaknesses

CWE-119

Affected Products

tibco
commercial·USaka spotfire analytics platform for aws, jasperreports server, spotfire server
enterprise message serviceOn-prem
Databases / cache-message-queue
rtworksOn-premWeb App
Enterprise Software / itsm-monitoring
smartsocketsOn-prem
Enterprise Software / itsm-monitoring
smartsockets rtserverOn-premWeb App
Enterprise Software / itsm-monitoring
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Exploitability

Official Patch Available
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Attack Graph

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MITRE ATT&CK

2 techniques
Initial Access
Privilege Escalation
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References

http://www.tibco.com/multimedia/security_advisory_rtworks_tcm8-7559.txt
tibco.com
http://www.tibco.com/services/support/advisories/default.jsp
tibco.com
http://securitytracker.com/id?1022129
securitytracker.com
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