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critical 9.3

CVE-2008-1965 in the critical feed json

Argument injection vulnerability in the cai: URI handler in rcplauncher in IBM Lotus Expeditor Client for Desktop 6.1.1 and 6.1.2, as used…

published 2008-04-25 18 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2008-1963

cvss
9.3
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
10.7%
EPSS 10.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 95%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

Argument injection vulnerability in the cai: URI handler in rcplauncher in IBM Lotus Expeditor Client for Desktop 6.1.1 and 6.1.2, as used by Lotus Symphony and possibly other products, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by injecting a -launcher option via a cai: URI, as demonstrated by a reference to a UNC share pathname.

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-31706)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

10.67% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 95% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-31706 IBM Lotus Expeditor 6.1 - URI Handler Command Execution remote, 2008-04-24
  • securityfocus.com http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28926 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified
  • archives.neohapsis.com http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2008-04/0640.html referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 9.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-94 Improper Control of Generation of Code

References

Sources

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