Path Traversal in Ca Internet Security Suite Plus 2008

CVE-2008-2511

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.

Vulnerability class: Path Traversal (Directory Traversal)

EPSS: 0.100 (95.1th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

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