VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2012-5309

medium
Published 2012-10-08 · 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
6.8

Description

servlet/traveler in IBM Lotus Notes Traveler through 8.5.3.3 Interim Fix 1 does not properly restrict invalid authentication attempts, which makes it easier for remote attackers to obtain access via a brute-force attack.

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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Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
ibm ibmlotus_notes_traveler8.5.0.0
ibm ibmlotus_notes_traveler8.5.0.1
ibm ibmlotus_notes_traveler8.5.0.2
ibm ibmlotus_notes_traveler8.5.1.1
ibm ibmlotus_notes_traveler8.5.1.2
ibm ibmlotus_notes_traveler8.5.1.3
ibm ibmlotus_notes_traveler8.5.2.1
ibm ibmlotus_notes_traveler8.5.3
ibm ibmlotus_notes_traveler8.5.3.1
ibm ibmlotus_notes_traveler8.5.3.2
ibm ibmlotus_notes_traveler8.5.3.3

References

CWEs

CWE-287

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

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