CVEvulnerability
CVE-2008-2511
9.3 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2008-06-02
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 9.3 HIGH — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-22
Description
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.
Affected configurations
• ca internet security suite plus 2008
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory weakness
References
- http://retrogod.altervista.org/9sg_CA_poc.html Exploit
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30420 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/492679/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020129 www.securitytracker.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1696/references www.vupen.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42712 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/5682 www.exploit-db.com
- http://retrogod.altervista.org/9sg_CA_poc.html Exploit
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30420 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/492679/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020129 www.securitytracker.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1696/references www.vupen.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42712 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/5682 www.exploit-db.com