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Fencer Vulns
high 7.5

CVE-2007-0168 in the critical feed json

The Tape Engine service in Computer Associates (CA) BrightStor ARCserve Backup 9.01 through 11.5, Enterprise Backup 10.5, and CA Server/Bus…

published 2007-01-11 19 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2007-0172

cvss
7.5
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
20.4%
EPSS 20.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 97%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

The Tape Engine service in Computer Associates (CA) BrightStor ARCserve Backup 9.01 through 11.5, Enterprise Backup 10.5, and CA Server/Business Protection Suite r2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via certain data in opnum 0xBF in an RPC request, which is directly executed.

Patch / fix

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-29444)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

20.40% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 97% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-29444 CA BrightStor ARCserve Backup - Message Engine/Tape Engine Remote Buffer Overflow dos, 2007-01-11
  • zerodayinitiative.com http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-07-002.html referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.