CVE-2012-0439

critical

Published 2013-02-24 · 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

An ActiveX control in gwcls1.dll in the client in Novell GroupWise 8.0 before 8.0.3 HP2 and 2012 before SP1 HP1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via (1) a pointer argument to the SetEngine method or (2) an XPItem pointer argument to an unspecified method.

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-24490 remote windows verified

Metasploit · 2013-02-12

Novell Groupwise Client - 'gwcls1.dll' ActiveX Remote Code Execution (Metasploit)

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Metasploit modules

exploit_windows/browser/novell_groupwise_gwcls1_actvx rank 300

Novell GroupWise Client gwcls1.dll ActiveX Remote Code Execution

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

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
novell	groupwise	`8.0`
novell	groupwise	`8.00`
novell	groupwise	`8.01`
novell	groupwise	`8.02`
novell	groupwise	`8.03`
novell	groupwise	`2012`

References

CWEs

CWE-94

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

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