CVE-2009-5033: IBM Lotus Notes Traveler

Medium severity, CVSS 4.0. EPSS: 1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

IBM Lotus Notes Traveler before 8.5.0.2 does not properly handle a "* *" argument sequence for a certain tell command, which allows remote authenticated users to obtain access to other users' data via a sync operation, related to storage of the data of multiple users within the same thread.

Affected products

• IBM Lotus Notes Traveler: up to and including 8.5.0.1; version 8.0 only; version 8.0.1 only; version 8.0.1.2 only; version 8.0.1.3 only; version 8.5.0.0 only

Published 2010-12-16. Last modified 2026-06-16.