CVE-2007-4620
Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in Computer Associates (CA) Alert Notification Service (Alert.exe) 8.1.586.0, 8.0.450.0, and…
- 9.0HighCVSS base score
- 52.3%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 1.0% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 2Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in Computer Associates (CA) Alert Notification Service (Alert.exe) 8.1.586.0, 8.0.450.0, and 7.1.758.0, as used in multiple CA products including Anti-Virus for the Enterprise 7.1 through r11.1 and Threat Manager for the Enterprise 8.1 and r8, allow remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary code via crafted RPC requests.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list a Metasploit module and an Exploit-DB entry for it.
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Metasploit modules1 module
- Computer Associates Alert Notification Buffer Overflow (Metasploit module) (opens in a new tab)
exploit/windows/brightstor/etrust_itm_alertRank averagedisclosed 4 Apr 2008
Exploit-DB1 entry
- Computer Associates - Alert Notification Buffer Overflow (Metasploit) (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 16410remote, windowspublished 30 Apr 2010Verified
Modules, templates and exploits as listed by the Metasploit Framework (BSD-3-Clause), ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei templates (MIT) and the Exploit Database (GPLv2), read once a day. Where the data comes from
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 7 months later
· 7 months later
Published
- 16 years later
· 16 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High9.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 52.3% · top 1.0% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 9.0.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
11
- 1019790 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 3799 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASONx_transferred
- 1019789 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- https://support.ca.com/irj/portal/anonymous/phpsupcontent?contentID=173103 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- ca-alertnotificationserver-bo(41639) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- http://community.ca.com/blogs/casecurityresponseblog/archive/2008/04/04/ca-alert-notification-server-multiple-vulnerabilities.aspx (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- ADV-2008-1103 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 20080404 CA Alert Notification Server Multiple Vulnerabilities (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 28605 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 29665 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 20080403 Computer Associates Alert Notification Service Multiple RPC Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_IDEFENSEx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2007-4602 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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