CVE-2008-1472
Stack-based buffer overflow in the ListCtrl ActiveX Control (ListCtrl.ocx), as used in multiple CA products including BrightStor ARCserve…
- 9.3HighCVSS base score
- 40.3%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 1.3% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 3Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Stack-based buffer overflow in the ListCtrl ActiveX Control (ListCtrl.ocx), as used in multiple CA products including BrightStor ARCserve Backup R11.5, Desktop Management Suite r11.1 through r11.2, and Unicenter products r11.1 through r11.2, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (crash) via a long argument to the AddColumn method.
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. A reference of the record is tagged as an exploit.
Show the exploits4
Metasploit modules1 module
- CA BrightStor ARCserve Backup AddColumn() ActiveX Buffer Overflow (Metasploit module) (opens in a new tab)
exploit/windows/browser/ca_brightstor_addcolumnRank normaldisclosed 16 Mar 2008
Exploit-DB2 entries
- CA BrightStor ARCserve Backup - 'AddColumn()' ActiveX Buffer Overflow (Metasploit) (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 16577remote, windowspublished 15 Jun 2010Verified
- CA BrightStor ARCserve Backup r11.5 - ActiveX Remote Buffer Overflow (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 5264remote, windowspublished 16 Mar 2008Verified
References tagged exploit1 reference
- 5264 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
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
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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 | High9.3 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 40.3% · top 1.3% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 9.3.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
9
- 28268 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- ADV-2008-0902 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 29408 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 5264 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- ca-arcserve-listctrl-bo(41225) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 20080320 Note about recently publicized CA BrightStor ActiveX exploit code (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 1019617 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 20080328 CA Multiple Products DSM ListCtrl ActiveX Control Buffer Overflow Vulnerability (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- http://community.ca.com/blogs/casecurityresponseblog/archive/2008/3/28.aspx (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_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-2008-1476 (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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