CVE-2008-5420 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

The SAN Manager Master Agent service (aka msragent.exe) in EMC Control Center before 6.1 does not properly authenticate SST_SENDFILE requests, which allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files.

Published: 2008-12-10

Score: 7.8 High

EPSS: 2.3% Low

KEV: No

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

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n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:a:emc:control_center::::::::
	cpe:2.3:a:emc:control_center:5.2:sp5::::::

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Remediation

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2008-5397	The SAN Manager Master Agent service (aka msragent.exe) in EMC Control Center before 6.1 does not properly authenticate SST_SENDFILE requests, which allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Complete

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact None

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.02285.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://osvdb.org/50032
http://secunia.com/advisories/32801
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4709
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/498556/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32392
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021263
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3220
http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-08-076/
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46753

History

No history.

Subscriptions

Emc Control Center

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2008-12-10T13:33:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-07T10:56:45.856Z

Reserved: 2008-12-10T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2008-5420

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2008-12-10T14:00:01.283

Modified: 2026-06-16T22:59:56.633

Link: CVE-2008-5420

Redhat

No data.

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

CWE-200
Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

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