CVE-2008-2511

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Directory traversal vulnerability in the UmxEventCli.CachedAuditDataList.1 (aka UmxEventCliLib) ActiveX control in UmxEventCli.dll in CA Internet Security Suite 2008 allows remote attackers to create and overwrite arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the argument to the SaveToFile method. NOTE: this can be leveraged for code execution by writing to a Startup folder. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

Published: 2008-06-02 Last update: 2026-04-23 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2008-2511 is rated High Exploit Risk (90.4/100): CVSS Critical severity, with high exploitation likelihood (EPSS 10.01%, 95th percentile). Core evidence: 2 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). EPSS rose +5.31% over the last day, indicating growing attacker interest. 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-2008-2511

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
5682 exploit_db edb 2008-05-28 Exploit-DB ↗
nvd_ref exploit_tag Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2008-2511

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 4.70% 10.01% +5.31%
2 2025-07-23 4.27% 4.70% +0.43%
3 2025-06-02 4.27%

Full EPSS history (11 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2008-2511

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
9.3 2.0 HIGH
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
Access complexity (AC:M)
Exploitation needs some favorable conditions, but not exceptional ones.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:C)
Complete confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:C)
Complete integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:C)
Complete availability impact.
8.6 10.0 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2008-2511

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2008-2511

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
ca internet_security_suite_plus_2008 cpe:2.3:a:ca:internet_security_suite_plus_2008:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2008-2511

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