CVE-2013-3986

medium

Published 2013-11-08 · 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

5.3

Description

IBM Lotus Sametime 8.5.2 and 8.5.2.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (WebPlayer Firefox extension crash) via a crafted Audio Visual (AV) session.

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.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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Exploits

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

Metasploit modules

auxiliary_dos/misc/ibm_sametime_webplayer_dos rank 300

IBM Lotus Sametime WebPlayer DoS

Source fetch failed: fetch_error — view the original via the link above.

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
ibm	lotus_sametime	`8.5.2`
ibm	lotus_sametime	`8.5.2.1`

References

CWEs

CWE-119

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

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.