CVE-2017-12969

high

Published 2017-11-10 · Modified 2026-05-13

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CVSS v3

8.8

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

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

9.8

Description

Buffer overflow in the ViewerCtrlLib.ViewerCtrl ActiveX control in Avaya IP Office Contact Center before 10.1.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap corruption and crash) or execute arbitrary code via a long string to the open method.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

92%

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-43120 dos windows

hyp3rlinx · 2017-11-05

Avaya IP Office (IPO) < 10.1 - ActiveX Buffer Overflow

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
avaya	ip_office_contact_center	`9.1`
avaya	ip_office_contact_center	`9.1.0`
avaya	ip_office_contact_center	`9.1.0.2209.1540`
avaya	ip_office_contact_center	`9.1.6`
avaya	ip_office_contact_center	`9.1.7`
avaya	ip_office_contact_center	`9.1.8`
avaya	ip_office_contact_center	`9.1.9`
avaya	ip_office_contact_center	`10.0`
avaya	ip_office_contact_center	`10.0.0.3-8600.1705`
avaya	ip_office_contact_center	`10.1`

References

CWEs

CWE-119

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

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