CVE-2008-4397: Broadcom Arcserve Backup

High severity, CVSS 10.0. EPSS: 80.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Directory traversal vulnerability in the RPC interface (asdbapi.dll) in CA ARCserve Backup (formerly BrightStor ARCserve Backup) r11.1 through r12.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a .. (dot dot) in an RPC call with opnum 0x10A.

Affected products

• Broadcom Arcserve Backup: version r12.0 only
• Broadcom Business Protection Suite: version r2 only
• Broadcom Server Protection Suite: version r2 only
• Ca Arcserve Backup: version r11.1 only; version r11.5 only
• Ca Business Protection Suite: version r2 only

Published 2008-10-14. Last modified 2026-06-16.