THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2008-3703
HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2008-3703

Veritas Storage Foundation vulnerability

CVSS
10.0
EPSS
12.2%
EPSS pct
96th
Exploited
No known
The management console in the Volume Manager Scheduler Service (aka VxSchedService.exe) in Symantec Veritas Storage Foundation for Windows (SFW) 5.0, 5.0 RP1a, and 5.1 accepts NULL NTLMSSP authentication, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via requests to the service socket that create "snapshots schedules" registry values specifying future command execution. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2007-2279.
Affected vendor
Symantec
Affected product
Veritas Storage Foundation
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-287 — Improper Authentication
Published
2008-08-18

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low 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 12.2% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 96% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2008-3703

  • 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-2008-3703.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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