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Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-2511

Original release date:06/02/2008
Last revised:03/08/2011
Source: US-CERT/NIST

Overview

Directory traversal vulnerability in the UmxEventCli.CachedAuditDataList.1 (aka UmxEventCliLib) ActiveX control in UmxEventCli.dll in CA Internet Security Suite 2008 allows remote attackers to create and overwrite arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the argument to the SaveToFile method. NOTE: this can be leveraged for code execution by writing to a Startup folder. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
CVSS v2 Base Score:9.3 (HIGH) (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C) (legend)
Impact Subscore: 10.0
Exploitability Subscore: 8.6
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable; Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows unauthorized modification; Allows disruption of service

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External Source: XF
Name: internet-security-umxeventcli-file-overwrite(42712)
Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/42712
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2008-1696
Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1696/references
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1020129
Hyperlink:http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020129
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20080528 [NSG_28-5-08] CA Internet Security Suite 2008 (UmxEventCli.dll/SaveToFile()) remote file corruption poc
Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/492679/100/0/threaded
External Source: MILW0RM
Name: 5682
Hyperlink:http://www.milw0rm.com/exploits/5682
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 30420
Type: Advisory
Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/30420
External Source: MISC
Name: http://retrogod.altervista.org/9sg_CA_poc.html
Hyperlink:http://retrogod.altervista.org/9sg_CA_poc.html

Vulnerable software and versions

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Technical Details

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CVE Standard Vulnerability Entry:http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-2511