CVE-2011-2089

critical
Published 2011-05-13 ยท Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
10.0

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in the SetActiveXGUID method in the VersionInfo ActiveX control in GenVersion.dll 8.0.138.0 in the WebHMI subsystem in ICONICS BizViz 9.x before 9.22 and GENESIS32 9.x before 9.22 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long string in the argument. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

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.

Exploit-DB

EDB-17269 remote windows verified
Metasploit ยท 2011-05-10

ICONICS WebHMI - ActiveX Buffer Overflow (Metasploit)

Source code queued for fetch โ€” refresh in a moment.
EDB-17240 remote windows verified
sgb & bls ยท 2011-05-03

ICONICS WebHMI - ActiveX Stack Overflow

Source code queued for fetch โ€” refresh in a moment.

Metasploit modules

ICONICS WebHMI ActiveX Buffer Overflow
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Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
iconicsbizviz9.0
iconicsbizviz9.01
iconicsbizviz9.1
iconicsbizviz9.2
iconicsbizviz9.13
iconicsbizviz9.20
iconicsbizviz9.21
iconicsgenesis329.0
iconicsgenesis329.1
iconicsgenesis329.01
iconicsgenesis329.2
iconicsgenesis329.13
iconicsgenesis329.20
iconicsgenesis329.21

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.