What is CVE-2007-5399?

CVE-2007-5399 is a vulnerability in Autonomy Keyview, classified under Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer. Published 2008-04-10.

Is CVE-2007-5399 known to be exploited?

1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Buffer overflow in Autonomy Keyview

CVE-2007-5399

Multiple 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 Notes, allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long (1) To, (2) Cc, (3) Bcc, (4) From, (5) Date, (6) Subject, (7) Priority, (8) Importance, or (9) X-MSMail-Priority header; (10) a long string at the beginning of an RFC2047 encoded-word in a header; (11) a long text string in an RFC2047 encoded-word in a header; or (12) a long Subject header, related to creation of an associated filename.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

Published 2008-04-10 · last modified 2026-06-16.

CVSS v2 metric

CVSS v2 base score 9.3 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.055 (92.8th percentile), scored 2026-10-29.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 93rd percentile — 92.8% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.055 · newest: 0.055 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Autonomy Keyview — versions 10.3.0.0
IBM Lotus Notes — versions 6.0, 6.5, 7.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

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

Public proof-of-concept exploits

ARPSyndicate/cve-scores

References

secunia.com/advisories/28209 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/490832/100/0/threaded (mailing-list)
www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1156 (vdb-entry)
www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss
www.securityfocus.com/bid/28454 (vdb-entry)
secunia.com/advisories/28210 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
secunia.com/secunia_research/2007-91/advisory/ (Vendor Advisory)
www.securitytracker.com/id (vdb-entry)
www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/490833/100/0/threaded (mailing-list)
www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1153 (vdb-entry)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2007-5399?: CVE-2007-5399 is a vulnerability in Autonomy Keyview, classified under Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer. Published 2008-04-10.
Is CVE-2007-5399 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.