CVE-2007-5612: IBM Director

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 2.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

CIM Server in IBM Director 5.20.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption, connection slot exhaustion, and daemon crash) via a large number of idle connections.

Affected products

• IBM Director: any version; up to and including 5.20.1; version 3.1 only; version 5.10 only; version 5.10.3 only

Published 2007-11-21. Last modified 2026-06-16.