CVE-2007-1785: Broadcom Brightstor Arcserve Backup

High severity, CVSS 7.1. EPSS: 15.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The RPC service in mediasvr.exe in CA BrightStor ARCserve Backup 11.5 SP2 build 4237 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted xdr_handle_t data in RPC packets, which is used in calculating an address for a function call, as demonstrated using the 191 (0xbf) RPC request.

Affected products

• Broadcom Brightstor Arcserve Backup: version 9.01 only; version 11.1 only; version 11.5 only
• Ca Brightstor Arcserve Backup: version 11 only

Published 2007-03-31. Last modified 2026-06-16.