CVE-2008-1984

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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.

Published: 2008-04-27 Last update: 2026-04-23 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2008-1984 is rated High Exploit Risk (75.9/100): CVSS High severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 2.25%). Core evidence: 2 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.

Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2008-1984

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2008-1984

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 2025-03-30 1.64% 2.25% +0.61%
2 2025-03-29 2.25% 1.64% -0.61%
3 2025-03-17 2.25%

Full EPSS history (11 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2008-1984

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
7.8 2.0 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
Access complexity (AC:L)
Exploitation conditions are straightforward and predictable.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:N)
No confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:N)
No integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:C)
Complete availability impact.
10.0 6.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2008-1984

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2008-1984

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
broadcom secure_content_manager <= 8.0.28000.511 cpe:2.3:a:broadcom:secure_content_manager:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2008-1984

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