CVE-2009-1291
Stack-based buffer overflow in TIBCO SmartSockets before 6.8.2, SmartSockets Product Family (aka RTworks) before 4.0.5, and Enterprise Message Service (EMS) 4.0.0 through 5.1.1, as used in SmartSockets Server and RTworks Server (aka RTserver), SmartSockets client libraries and add-on products, RTworks libraries and components, EMS Server (aka tibemsd), SmartMQ, iProcess Engine, ActiveMatrix products, and CA Enterprise Communicator, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via "inbound data," as demonstrated by requests to the UDP interface of the RTserver component, and data injection into the TCP stream to tibemsd.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 10.0 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-119
- EPSS score
- 6.4% (94th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2009-1289)
- Published
- April 30, 2009
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2009-1289 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- tibco / enterprise message service
- tibco / enterprise message service
- tibco / enterprise message service
- tibco / enterprise message service
- tibco / enterprise message service
- tibco / enterprise message service
- tibco / enterprise message service
- tibco / rtworks
- tibco / rtworks
- tibco / smartsockets
- tibco / smartsockets
- tibco / smartsockets rtserver
- tibco / smartsockets rtserver
References
- http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=785
- http://secunia.com/advisories/34911(Vendor Advisory)
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1022129
- http://www.harmonysecurity.com/blog/2009/04/tibco-smartsockets-stack-buffer.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34754
- http://www.tibco.com/multimedia/security_advisory_ems_tcm8-7558.txt(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.tibco.com/multimedia/security_advisory_rtworks_tcm8-7559.txt(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.tibco.com/multimedia/security_advisory_smartsockets_tcm8-7560.txt(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.tibco.com/services/support/advisories/default.jsp(Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.tibco.com/services/support/advisories/smartsockets-sspfm-ems_advisory_20090428.jsp(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1198(Vendor Advisory)
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/50214
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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