CVE-2008-1661
Stack-based buffer overflow in DoubleTake.exe in HP StorageWorks Storage Mirroring (SWSM) before 4.5 SP2 allows remote attackers to…
- 10.0HighCVSS base score
- 69.0%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 0.6% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 3Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Stack-based buffer overflow in DoubleTake.exe in HP StorageWorks Storage Mirroring (SWSM) before 4.5 SP2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted encoded authentication request.
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.
Show the exploits3
Metasploit modules1 module
- DoubleTake/HP StorageWorks Storage Mirroring Service Authentication Overflow (Metasploit module) (opens in a new tab)
exploit/windows/misc/doubletakeRank averagedisclosed 4 Jun 2008
Exploit-DB2 entries
- DoubleTake/HP StorageWorks Storage Mirroring Service - Authentication Overflow (Metasploit) (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 16450remote, windowspublished 3 Jul 2010Verified
- HP StorageWorks - NSI Double Take Remote Overflow (Metasploit) (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 5738remote, windowspublished 4 Jun 2008Verified
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
- 2 months later
· 2 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 | High10.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 69.0% · top 0.6% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 10.0.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
6
- 1020157 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- ADV-2008-1723 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- HPSBST02312 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_HPx_transferred
- hp-storageworks-unspecified-code-execution(42810) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-08-034/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 30502 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_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-2008-1662 (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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