CVE-2008-2499
Stack-based buffer overflow in the Community Services Multiplexer (aka MUX or StMux.exe) in IBM Lotus Sametime 7.5.1 CF1 and earlier, and…
- 7.5HighCVSS base score
- 77.5%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 0.4% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 3Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Stack-based buffer overflow in the Community Services Multiplexer (aka MUX or StMux.exe) in IBM Lotus Sametime 7.5.1 CF1 and earlier, and 8.x before 8.0.1, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted URL.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list a Metasploit module and 2 Exploit-DB entries for it.
Show the exploits3
Metasploit modules1 module
- IBM Lotus Domino Sametime STMux.exe Stack Buffer Overflow (Metasploit module) (opens in a new tab)
exploit/windows/lotus/domino_sametime_stmuxRank averagedisclosed 21 May 2008
Exploit-DB2 entries
- IBM Lotus Domino Sametime - 'STMux.exe' Remote Stack Buffer Overflow (Metasploit) (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 16696remote, windowspublished 9 May 2010Verified
- IBM Lotus Sametime 8.0 - Multiplexer Buffer Overflow (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 31820remote, unixpublished 21 May 2008Verified
Modules, templates and exploits as listed by the Metasploit Framework (BSD-3-Clause), ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei templates (MIT) and the Exploit Database (GPLv2), read once a day. Where the data comes from
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Published
- 16 years later
· 16 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High7.5 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 77.5% · top 0.4% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
7
- http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-08-028/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 1020093 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- sametime-stmux-bo(42575) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- ADV-2008-1595 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 29328 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 30309 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=463&uid=swg21303920 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2008-2494 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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