CVE-2008-1979

Brightstor Arcserve Backup vulnerability

CVSS

5.0

EPSS

3.6%

EPSS pct

88th

Exploited

No known

The Discovery Service (casdscvc) in CA ARCserve Backup 12.0.5454.0 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a packet with a large integer value used in an increment to TCP port 41523, which triggers a buffer over-read.

Affected vendor

Broadcom

Affected product

Brightstor Arcserve Backup

CVSS vector

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

Weakness type (CWE)

CWE-189

Published

2008-04-27

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 availability.

Its EPSS score of 3.6% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 88% of all scored CVEs.

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Confirm whether Broadcom Brightstor Arcserve Backup is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
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