Double free vulnerability in the IMAP server component in GroupWise Internet Agent (GWIA) in Novell GroupWise before 8.02HP allows remote at
Noroxi assessment
Priority: Plan (action score 44/100)
- Public proof-of-concept code exists (Exploit-DB); there is no record of exploitation in the wild.
- Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 13.5% (FIRST EPSS); higher than 96.4% of all records.
- No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
- According to the record, no fixed version is available yet.
Add it to your regular patch cycle. Update when a fix is released; follow the vendor's advisory.
Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it
Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS
Double free vulnerability in the IMAP server component in GroupWise Internet Agent (GWIA) in Novell GroupWise before 8.02HP allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a large parameter in a LIST command.
- Published
- Jan 31, 2011
- Updated
- Jun 16, 2026
- EPSS
- 13.5% · 96th percentile
- CWE
- CWE-399
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Action score
44
Plan
Add it to your regular patch cycle.
- CVSS
- 40 / 40 · 10.0 / 10
- CISA KEV
- 0 / 30 · Not listed
- EPSS
- 4 / 30 · 13.5%
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| Vendor | Product | CPE |
|---|---|---|
| novell | groupwise | cpe:2.3:a:novell:groupwise |
Affected versions
NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.
- novell groupwiseup to 8.0.2 inclusive
- novell groupwise4.1
- novell groupwise4.1a
- novell groupwise5.0
- novell groupwise5.1
- novell groupwise5.2
- novell groupwise5.5
- novell groupwise5.57e
- novell groupwise6.0
- novell groupwise6.0.1
- novell groupwise6.5
- novell groupwise6.5.2
- novell groupwise6.5.3
- novell groupwise6.5.4
- novell groupwise6.5.6
- novell groupwise6.5.7
- novell groupwise7.0
- novell groupwise7.0.1
- novell groupwise7.0.2
- novell groupwise7.0.3
Same product
novell: all recordsOther highest-scoring records for the same primary product.
- CVE-2012-0439An ActiveX control in gwcls1.dll in the client in Novell GroupWise 8.0 before 8.0.3 HP2 and 2012 before SP1 HP1 allows remote attackers to e49Plan
- CVE-2008-2069Buffer overflow in Novell GroupWise 7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code via a long argument in 47Plan
- CVE-2007-2171Stack-based buffer overflow in the base64_decode function in GWINTER.exe in Novell GroupWise (GW) WebAccess before 7.0 SP2 allows remote att47Plan
Published before and after this one in the same product
- ← EarlierCVE-2010-2778Jan 28, 2011 · Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in WebAccess in Novell GroupWise 7.x before 7.0 post-SP4 FTF and 8.x before 8.0 SP2 allows remote a18Monitor
- ← EarlierCVE-2010-2779Jan 28, 2011 · Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in WebAccess in Novell GroupWise 8.x before 8.0 SP2 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web18Monitor
- Later →CVE-2010-4712Jan 31, 2011 · Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in gwia.exe in GroupWise Internet Agent (GWIA) in Novell GroupWise before 8.02HP allow remote attacker42Plan
Remediation
Which version to upgrade to
Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.
No fix version is recorded for this entry. Check the references for vendor advisories.
Exploit status
Proof of concept available
A public proof of concept or detection signature exists. Exploit knowledge is out there; don't delay patching.
Evidence
- Exploit-DB entry ×1
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| Source | Kind | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Exploit-DB entry | dos | 2010-11-09 |
Research context
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Timeline
From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.
- First PoC-84 d
- Published
- TodayOct 24, 2026+5745 d
FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).
Patch and commit links
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No commit or PR link among the references.
Credits
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No credits in the CNA record.
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
No known public program.
Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).
Technical details
Attack conditions
- No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
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
- Low
- Confidentiality impact
- C
- Integrity impact
- C
- Availability impact
- C
Weakness class (CWE)
CWE-399 · Resource Management ErrorsCVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
nvd-primary
Attack context
MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.
MITRE has no CAPEC/ATT&CK mapping for this CWE.
Change log
No changes recorded on tracked fields yet. Score, KEV, exploit maturity and fix status changes appear here.
References
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Vendor advisories and official records. Exploit/PoC links are deliberately left out.