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critical 9.3

CVE-2008-2511 in the critical feed json

Directory traversal vulnerability in the UmxEventCli.CachedAuditDataList.1 (aka UmxEventCliLib) ActiveX control in UmxEventCli.dll in CA In…

published 2008-06-02 18 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2008-2506

cvss
9.3
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
10.0%
EPSS 10.0% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 95%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

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.

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-5682)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

10.01% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 95% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-5682 CA Internet Security Suite 2008 - 'SaveToFile()' File Corruption (PoC) dos, 2008-05-28
  • retrogod.altervista.org http://retrogod.altervista.org/9sg_CA_poc.html referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 9.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory

References

Sources

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