CVE-2007-4880
Buffer overflow in the Client Acceptor Daemon (CAD), dsmcad.exe, in certain IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) clients 5.1 before 5.1.8.1,…
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Description
Buffer overflow in the Client Acceptor Daemon (CAD), dsmcad.exe, in certain IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) clients 5.1 before 5.1.8.1, 5.2 before 5.2.5.2, 5.3 before 5.3.5.3, and 5.4 before 5.4.1.2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted HTTP headers, aka IC52905.
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 2 Exploit-DB entries for it.
Metasploit modules1 module
- IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Express CAD Service Buffer Overflow (Metasploit module) (opens in a new tab)
exploit/windows/http/ibm_tsm_cad_headerRank gooddisclosed 24 Sept 2007
Exploit-DB2 entries
- IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Express CAD Service - Remote Buffer Overflow (Metasploit) (2) (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 16764remote, windowspublished 9 May 2010Verified
- IBM Tivoli Storage Manager 5.3 - Express CAD Service Buffer Overflow (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 4573remote, windowspublished 27 Oct 2007Verified
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
- 15 days later
· 15 days later
Published
- 17 years later
· 17 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 | High10.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 75.9% · top 0.5% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 10.0.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (11)
- 25743 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21268775 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- IC52905 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_AIXAPARx_transferred
- 3184 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASONx_transferred
- http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-07-054.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- ADV-2007-3228 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 26883 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- ibm-tsm-cad-bo(36700) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 38161 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- 20070924 ZDI-07-054: IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Express CAD Service Buffer Overflow Vulnerability (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 1018725 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_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-2007-4861 (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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