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CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HSummary
CVE-2011-1889 is a critical-severity Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer (CWE-119) vulnerability in Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway. Its CVSS base score is 9.8 (Critical).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Process Injection (T1055); ranked in the top 1% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; CISA has added it to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.
Deeper analysis AI-assisted summary
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The vulnerability is a memory corruption issue, tracked as CWE-119, in the NSPLookupServiceNext function within the client component of Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway (TMG) 2010. It is assigned CVE-2011-1889 with a CVSS 3.1 base score of 9.8 and was publicly disclosed on 16 June 2011.
Remote attackers unauthenticated over the network can exploit the flaw by sending unspecified requests that trigger the memory corruption, resulting in arbitrary code execution on the affected system.
Microsoft addressed the issue in security bulletin MS11-040, with additional details available in advisories from Secunia, SecurityFocus, SecurityTracker, and IBM X-Force. No information on observed in-the-wild exploitation is provided in the source references.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2011-1887
Vulnerability Data
The NSPLookupServiceNext function in the client in Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway (TMG) 2010 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via vectors involving unspecified requests, aka "TMG Firewall Client Memory Corruption Vulnerability."
- CWE(s)
- KEV Date Added
- 03 March 2022
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Likely Mitigating Controls AI
Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.
Ongoing control assessments and code testing (static/dynamic analysis, fuzzing) surface memory buffer restriction failures, which are then remediated before release.
Managed runtimes used by platform-independent applications (e.g., JVM, CLR) enforce memory safety, preventing most buffer overflows that require direct memory manipulation.
Memory protections (e.g., W^X, ASLR) make exploitation of buffer-boundary violations far harder to turn into code execution.
Detects exploitation attempts that produce memory corruption, crashes, or anomalous behavior.
Mitigating Controls (NIST CSF 2.0) AI
Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→CSF cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.
Secure SDLC practices (bounds checking, safe APIs, reviews) directly prevent this class of flaw.
Vulnerability scanning and code analysis directly surface buffer-boundary flaws.
Receiving and triaging vulnerability disclosures commonly includes buffer-related reports.
Developer training on secure coding reduces introduction of memory-buffer errors.
Patching replaces vulnerable code containing buffer-boundary defects.
Mitigating Controls (ISO/IEC 27001:2022 Annex A) AI
Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→ISO cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.
Security testing in development catches out-of-bounds accesses before release, covering most instances of the weakness.
Secure development lifecycle mandates memory-safety practices that directly prevent buffer-boundary violations.
Application security requirements can specify memory-safety rules, but do not prescribe implementation details.
Secure architecture and engineering principles include memory-safe design patterns that mitigate buffer overflows.
Secure coding standards explicitly forbid unsafe buffer operations, directly eliminating CWE-119.