CVE-2008-2511 (GCVE-0-2008-2511)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2008-06-02 14:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 09:05
VLAI
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
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http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1696… vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN
http://secunia.com/advisories/30420 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://retrogod.altervista.org/9sg_CA_poc.html x_refsource_MISC
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020129 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/492679/100… mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
Date Public
2008-05-28 00:00
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