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CVE-2008-4398
Unspecified vulnerability in the tape engine service in asdbapi.dll in CA ARCserve Backup (formerly BrightStor ARCserve Backup) r11.1…
- 5.0MediumCVSS base score
- 8.2%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 5.1% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Unspecified vulnerability in the tape engine service in asdbapi.dll in CA ARCserve Backup (formerly BrightStor ARCserve Backup) r11.1 through r12.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted request.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 12 days later
· 12 days 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 | Medium5.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 8.2% · top 5.1% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
7
- 31684 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- ADV-2008-2777 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- ca-arcservebackup-tape-engine-dos(45775) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 1021032 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- https://support.ca.com/irj/portal/anonymous/phpsupcontent?contentID=188143 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 32220 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 20081009 CA ARCserve Backup Multiple Vulnerabilities (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_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-2008-4379 (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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