CA Anti-Virus for the Enterprise r8 and Threat Manager r8 before 20070510 use weak permissions (NULL security descriptor) for the Task Service shared file mapping, which allows local users to modify this mapping and gain privileges by triggering a stack-based buffer overflow in InoCore.dll before 8.0.448.0.
Conclusion & alert: CVE-2007-2523 is rated High Exploit Risk (68.6/100): CVSS High severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 1.38%). Core evidence: 1 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). Mandatory action: Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.
Risk is dynamic; we continuously reassess and refresh what is shown on this page as upstream context changes.
| EDB-ID | Source | Kind | Published | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30019 | exploit_db | edb | 2007-05-09 | Exploit-DB ↗ |
EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).
| # | Date | Old EPSS score | New EPSS score | Delta (New - Old) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2026-06-15 | 0.59% | 1.38% | +0.79% |
| 2 | 2026-02-21 | 0.52% | 0.59% | +0.07% |
| 3 | 2025-03-17 | — | 0.52% | — |
Full EPSS history (5 records total)
CVSS metrics for this CVE.
| Base score | Version | Severity | Vector | Exploitability | Impact | Score source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7.2 | 2.0 | HIGH |
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3.9 | 10.0 | [email protected] |
: The Computer Associates Integrated Threat Manager product is only vulnerable if it is release 8.0 before 2007-05-10.
| Vendor | Product | Version | Raw CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
| broadcom | integrated_threat_management | 8.0 | cpe:2.3:a:broadcom:integrated_threat_management:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| ca | anti-virus_for_the_enterprise | 8 | cpe:2.3:a:ca:anti-virus_for_the_enterprise:8:*:enterprise:*:*:*:*:* |