CVE-2007-0168

Brightstor Arcserve Backup vulnerability

CVSS

7.5

EPSS

19.8%

EPSS pct

97th

Exploited

No known

The Tape Engine service in Computer Associates (CA) BrightStor ARCserve Backup 9.01 through 11.5, Enterprise Backup 10.5, and CA Server/Business Protection Suite r2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via certain data in opnum 0xBF in an RPC request, which is directly executed.

Affected vendor

Broadcom

Affected product

Brightstor Arcserve Backup

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Published

2007-01-11

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to confidentiality, partial impact to integrity, partial impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 19.8% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 97% of all scored CVEs.

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