CVE-2009-2727

Status: ModifiedHigh (9.3)—Exploit

Severity9.3High · CVSS 2.0

Exploitation probability27 %higher than 98% of CVEs

Active exploitationNonot in the CISA catalog

Public exploitAvailablePublished on Exploit-DB · Metasploit module (reliable, widely available exploit)

Stack-based buffer overflow in the _tt_internal_realpath function in the ToolTalk library (libtt.a) in IBM AIX 5.2.0, 5.3.0, 5.3.7 through 5.3.10, and 6.1.0 through 6.1.3, when the rpc.ttdbserver daemon is enabled in /etc/inetd.conf, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long XDR-encoded ASCII string to remote procedure 15.

CVSS

Base score: 9.3
Version: 2.0
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Exploitation probability (EPSS)

Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 27 %
Percentile among all scored CVEs: 98
Score date: 10/20/2026

EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, FIRST) estimates how likely a vulnerability is to be exploited in the wild within 30 days. It complements CVSS (impact) and CISA KEV (confirmed exploitation).

Public exploits

Exploit code or detection templates are publicly available. This is not the same as confirmed active exploitation (KEV), but it raises the risk: patch with priority.

Metasploit module (reliable, widely available exploit) · ToolTalk rpc.ttdbserverd _tt_internal_realpath Buffer Overflow (AIX)
Published on Exploit-DB · ToolTalk - rpc.ttdbserverd _tt_internal_realpath Buffer Overflow (AIX) (Metasploit) (11/11/2010)

Affected technologies (1)

IBM — AIX

CWEs

CWE-119

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