VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2011-4520

medium
Published 2013-05-23 · 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

Heap-based buffer overflow in an ActiveX component in MICROSYS PROMOTIC before 8.1.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted web page.

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-18049 dos windows verified
Luigi Auriemma · 2011-10-13

Microsys PROMOTIC 8.1.4 - ActiveX GetPromoticSite Unitialized Pointer

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
microsyspromotic{"endIncluding":"8.1.4"}
microsyspromotic8.0.0
microsyspromotic8.0.1
microsyspromotic8.0.2
microsyspromotic8.0.3
microsyspromotic8.0.4
microsyspromotic8.0.5
microsyspromotic8.0.6
microsyspromotic8.0.7
microsyspromotic8.0.8
microsyspromotic8.0.9
microsyspromotic8.0.10
microsyspromotic8.0.11
microsyspromotic8.0.12
microsyspromotic8.0.13
microsyspromotic8.1.0
microsyspromotic8.1.1
microsyspromotic8.1.2
microsyspromotic8.1.3

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.