5.1 Medium
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
7.1 High
AI Score
Confidence
High
0.739 High
EPSS
Percentile
98.1%
The PVATLCalendar.PVCalendar.1 ActiveX control in pvcalendar.ocx in the scheduler component in the Media Server in Symantec Backup Exec for Windows Server (BEWS) 11d 11.0.6235 and 11.0.7170, and 12.0 12.0.1364, exposes the unsafe Save method, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (browser crash), or create or overwrite arbitrary files, via string values of the (1) _DOWText0, (2) _DOWText1, (3) _DOWText2, (4) _DOWText3, (5) _DOWText4, (6) _DOWText5, (7) _DOWText6, (8) _MonthText0, (9) _MonthText1, (10) _MonthText2, (11) _MonthText3, (12) _MonthText4, (13) _MonthText5, (14) _MonthText6, (15) _MonthText7, (16) _MonthText8, (17) _MonthText9, (18) _MonthText10, and (19) _MonthText11 properties. NOTE: the vendor states “Authenticated user involvement required,” but authentication is not needed to attack a client machine that loads this control.
secunia.com/advisories/27885
secunia.com/secunia_research/2007-101/
securitytracker.com/id?1019525
seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/300471.htm
seer.support.veritas.com/docs/308669.htm
support.veritas.com/docs/300471
www.securityfocus.com/bid/28008
www.symantec.com/avcenter/security/Content/2008.02.28.html
www.symantec.com/avcenter/security/Content/2008.02.29.html
www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0718
www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2672