CVE-2017-1129

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Published 2017-09-05 · Modified 2026-05-13

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CVSS v3

6.5

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

7.5

Description

IBM Notes 8.5 and 9.0 is vulnerable to a denial of service. If a user is persuaded to click on a malicious link, it could cause the Notes client to hang and have to be restarted. IBM X-Force ID: 121370.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

75%

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-42602 dos multiple verified

Dhiraj Mishra · 2017-09-02

IBM Notes 8.5.x/9.0.x - Denial of Service

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

EDB-42969 dos multiple

Dhiraj Mishra · 2017-08-31

IBM Notes 8.5.x/9.0.x - Denial of Service (Metasploit)

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Metasploit modules

auxiliary_dos/http/ibm_lotus_notes rank 300

IBM Notes encodeURI DOS

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

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
ibm	inotes	`8.5.0.0`
ibm	inotes	`8.5.1.0`
ibm	inotes	`8.5.1.1`
ibm	inotes	`8.5.1.5`
ibm	inotes	`8.5.2.0`
ibm	inotes	`8.5.2.1`
ibm	inotes	`8.5.2.4`
ibm	inotes	`8.5.3.0`
ibm	inotes	`8.5.3.1`
ibm	inotes	`8.5.3.6`
ibm	inotes	`9.0.0.0`
ibm	inotes	`9.0.1.0`
ibm	inotes	`9.0.1.1`
ibm	inotes	`9.0.1.8`
ibm	expeditor	`6.2.1`
ibm	expeditor	`6.2.2`
ibm	expeditor	`6.2.3`

References

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

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