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CVE-2008-1718· NVD / CVE Program· CNA mitre

Buffer overflow in mimesr.dll in Autonomy (formerly Verity) KeyView, as used in IBM Lotus Notes before 8.0, might allow user-assisted remote

Buffer overflow in mimesr.dll in Autonomy (formerly Verity) KeyView, as used in IBM Lotus Notes before 8.0, might allow user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an e-mail message with a crafted Text mail (MIME) attachment.

CriticalCVSS 9.3 · v2.0—No exploit No fix recorded
Published
Apr 10, 2008
Updated
Jun 16, 2026
EPSS
3.3% · 88th percentile
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38

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CVSS
37 / 40 · 9.3 / 10
CISA KEV
0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS
1 / 30 · 3.3%

Affected systems

VendorProduct
autonomykeyview
ibmlotus notes

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

  • autonomy keyviewall versions
  • ibm lotus notes6.0
  • ibm lotus notes6.5
  • ibm lotus notes7.0
  • ibm lotus notes8.0
  • ibm lotus notes8.0.1

Same product

autonomy: all records

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

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  • CVE-2007-6020Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in foliosr.dll in the Folio Flat File speed reader in Autonomy (formerly Verity) KeyView 10.3.0.0, as
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  • CVE-2007-5399Multiple heap-based buffer overflows in emlsr.dll in the EML reader in Autonomy (formerly Verity) KeyView 10.3.0.0, as used by IBM Lotus Not
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  • CVE-2008-1101Buffer overflow in kvdocve.dll in the KeyView document viewing engine in Autonomy (formerly Verity) KeyView, as used by IBM Lotus Notes 7.0.
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  • CVE-2008-0066Multiple buffer overflows in htmsr.dll in the HTML speed reader in Autonomy (formerly Verity) KeyView, as used by IBM Lotus Notes 7.0.2 and
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Remediation

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Exploit status

No known public exploit

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Research context

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Timeline

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EPSS, last 120 days

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Variant candidates

Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.

No nightly-computed relations.

Chain candidates

An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.

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Bug bounty scope

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Technical details

Attack conditions

    If successful

    Confidentiality
    C · data can be read
    Integrity
    C · data or configuration can be modified
    Availability
    C · the service can be disrupted
    Attack complexity
    M
    Confidentiality impact
    C
    Integrity impact
    C
    Availability impact
    C

    Weakness class (CWE)

    CWE-119 · Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

    CVSS vector

    AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

    nvd-primary

    Attack context

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    References

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