Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Jun 2, 2008· Updated Jun 16, 2026
CVE-2008-2511
CVE-2008-2511
Description
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.
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Affected products
3- cpe:2.3:a:ca:internet_security_suite_plus_2008:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Patches
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References
7- retrogod.altervista.org/9sg_CA_poc.htmlnvdExploit
- secunia.com/advisories/30420nvdVendor Advisory
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/492679/100/0/threadednvd
- www.securitytracker.com/idnvd
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1696/referencesnvd
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42712nvd
- www.exploit-db.com/exploits/5682nvd
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