CVE-2008-2241: Broadcom Brightstor Arcserve Backup

High severity, CVSS 10.0. EPSS: 11.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Directory traversal vulnerability in caloggerd in CA BrightStor ARCServe Backup 11.0, 11.1, and 11.5 allows remote attackers to append arbitrary data to arbitrary files via directory traversal sequences in unspecified input fields, which are used in log messages. NOTE: this can be leveraged for code execution in many installation environments by writing to a startup file or configuration file.

Affected products

• Broadcom Brightstor Arcserve Backup: version 11.1 only; version 11.5 only
• Broadcom Server Protection Suite: version 2 only
• Ca Brightstor Arcserve Backup: version 11.0 only; version r11.0 only
• Ca Business Protection Suite: version 2.0 only

Published 2008-05-21. Last modified 2026-06-16.