THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2008-0638
HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2008-0638

Veritas Storage Foundation vulnerability

CVSS
9.3
EPSS
6.0%
EPSS pct
93th
Exploited
No known
Heap-based buffer overflow in the Veritas Enterprise Administrator (VEA) service (aka vxsvc.exe) in Symantec Veritas Storage Foundation 5.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a packet with a crafted value of a certain size field, which is not checked for consistency with the actual buffer size.
Affected vendor
Symantec
Affected product
Veritas Storage Foundation
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within Memory Bounds
Published
2008-02-21

Risk analysis

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

Its EPSS score of 6.0% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 93% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2008-0638

  • Confirm whether Symantec Veritas Storage Foundation is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2008-0638.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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