VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2012-2174

critical
Published 2012-06-20 · Modified 2026-04-29
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
10.0

Description

The URL handler in IBM Lotus Notes 8.x before 8.5.3 FP2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted notes:// URL.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Metasploit modules

exploit_windows/browser/notes_handler_cmdinject rank 600
IBM Lotus Notes Client URL Handler Command Injection
Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
ibm ibmlotus_notes8.0
ibm ibmlotus_notes8.0.0
ibm ibmlotus_notes8.0.1
ibm ibmlotus_notes8.0.2
ibm ibmlotus_notes8.0.2.0
ibm ibmlotus_notes8.0.2.1
ibm ibmlotus_notes8.0.2.2
ibm ibmlotus_notes8.0.2.3
ibm ibmlotus_notes8.0.2.4
ibm ibmlotus_notes8.0.2.5
ibm ibmlotus_notes8.0.2.6
ibm ibmlotus_notes8.5
ibm ibmlotus_notes8.5.0.0
ibm ibmlotus_notes8.5.0.1
ibm ibmlotus_notes8.5.1
ibm ibmlotus_notes8.5.1.0
ibm ibmlotus_notes8.5.1.1
ibm ibmlotus_notes8.5.1.2
ibm ibmlotus_notes8.5.1.3
ibm ibmlotus_notes8.5.1.4
ibm ibmlotus_notes8.5.1.5
ibm ibmlotus_notes8.5.2.0
ibm ibmlotus_notes8.5.2.1
ibm ibmlotus_notes8.5.2.2
ibm ibmlotus_notes8.5.2.3
ibm ibmlotus_notes8.5.3
ibm ibmlotus_notes8.5.3.1

References

CWEs

CWE-94

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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