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critical 10.0

CVE-2007-4880 in the critical feed json

Buffer overflow in the Client Acceptor Daemon (CAD), dsmcad.exe, in certain IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) clients 5.1 before 5.1.8.1, 5.…

published 2007-09-28 19 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2007-4861

cvss
10.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
75.9%
EPSS 75.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 99.5%
public exploits
3
Metasploit, Exploit-DB

Summary

Buffer overflow in the Client Acceptor Daemon (CAD), dsmcad.exe, in certain IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) clients 5.1 before 5.1.8.1, 5.2 before 5.2.5.2, 5.3 before 5.3.5.3, and 5.4 before 5.4.1.2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted HTTP headers, aka IC52905.

Patch / fix

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (Metasploit exploit/windows/http/ibm_tsm_cad_header)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

75.94% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 99.5% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • Metasploit exploit/windows/http/ibm_tsm_cad_header IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Express CAD Service Buffer Overflow metasploit exploit, good rank, 2007-09-24
  • EDB-16764 IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Express CAD Service - Remote Buffer Overflow (Metasploit) (2) remote, 2010-05-09
  • EDB-4573 IBM Tivoli Storage Manager 5.3 - Express CAD Service Buffer Overflow remote, 2007-10-27

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 10.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

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.