2008-1984 | CA Secure Content Manager resource management (BID-28888 / XFDB-41890)

By Max On Jul 31, 2021

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A vulnerability classified as critical was found in CA Secure Content Manager up to 8.0.28000.511. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown part. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a denial of service vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-399. As an impact it is known to affect availability. The summary by CVE is:

The eTrust Common Services (Transport) Daemon (eCSqdmn) in CA Secure Content Manager 8.0.28000.511 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash or CPU consumption) via a malformed packet to TCP port 1882.

The weakness was disclosed 04/27/2008 by Luigi Auriemma (Website). The advisory is shared at xforce.iss.net. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2008-1984 since 04/27/2008. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn’t need any form of authentication. Technical details are unknown but a public exploit is available.

It is declared as proof-of-concept. It is possible to download the exploit at securityfocus.com.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at SecurityFocus (BID 28888), X-Force (41890) and Vulnerability Center (SBV-29932).

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Class: Denial of service
CWE: CWE-399
ATT&CK: Unknown

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Access: Public
Status: Proof-of-Concept
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