CVE-2008-5420

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2008-12-10 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-200

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.

Affected products

EMC Control Center: through 6.0; 5.2-sp5

References

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
http://osvdb.org/50032
http://secunia.com/advisories/32801
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4709

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