CVE-2012-0271
Integer overflow in the WebConsole component in gwia.exe in GroupWise Internet Agent (GWIA) in Novell GroupWise 8.0 before 8.0.3 HP1 and…
- 10.0HighCVSS base score
- 17.5%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 2.8% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 1Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Integer overflow in the WebConsole component in gwia.exe in GroupWise Internet Agent (GWIA) in Novell GroupWise 8.0 before 8.0.3 HP1 and 2012 before SP1 might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted request that triggers a heap-based buffer overflow, as demonstrated by a request with -1 in the Content-Length HTTP header.
Public exploit
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Exploit-DB1 entry
- Novell Groupwise 8.0.2 HP3 and 2012 - Integer Overflow (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 21326dos, windowspublished 17 Sept 2012Verified
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Timeline
ID reserved
By flexera
- 9 months later
· 9 months later
Published
- 12 years later
· 12 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 | High10.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 17.5% · top 2.8% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 10.0.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
4
- http://www.novell.com/support/kb/doc.php?id=7010769 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://www.protekresearchlab.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=61&Itemid=61 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=746199 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 85426 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_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-2012-0307 (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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