CVE-2017-1129
IBM Notes 8.5 and 9.0 is vulnerable to a denial of service. If a user is persuaded to click on a malicious link, it could cause the Notes…
- 6.5MediumCVSS base score
- 30.1%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 1.8% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 3Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
IBM Notes 8.5 and 9.0 is vulnerable to a denial of service. If a user is persuaded to click on a malicious link, it could cause the Notes client to hang and have to be restarted. IBM X-Force ID: 121370.
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. A reference of the record is tagged as an exploit.
Show the exploits4
Metasploit modules1 module
- IBM Notes encodeURI DOS (Metasploit module) (opens in a new tab)
auxiliary/dos/http/ibm_lotus_notesRank normaldisclosed 31 Aug 2017
Exploit-DB2 entries
- IBM Notes 8.5.x/9.0.x - Denial of Service (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 42602dos, multiplepublished 2 Sept 2017Verified
- IBM Notes 8.5.x/9.0.x - Denial of Service (Metasploit) (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 42969dos, multiplepublished 31 Aug 2017Not verified
References tagged exploit1 reference
- 42602 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
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
Timeline
ID reserved
By ibm
- 9 months later
· 9 months later
Published
- 7 years later
· 7 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 | 3.0 | Medium6.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 30.1% · top 1.8% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.5.
Affected products
- affected 6.2.1
- affected 6.2.2
- affected 6.2.3
- affected 8.5.3.6
- affected 8.5.1.5
- affected 8.5.2.4
- affected 9.0
- affected 9.0.1.8
References
4
- 42602 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21999385 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/121370 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg22002103 (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-2017-10145 (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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