CVE-2008-4801

highpriority · track · 44EPSS 0.114 · 96 %ileEUUS

grimoire priorityP1 · Urgent

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

11.4% (96th) EPSS

CVSS 10 · high

Is it mine?

7 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

2 sources

enisa_euvd · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-28

Heap-based buffer overflow in the Data Protection for SQL CAD service (aka dsmcat.exe) in the Client Acceptor Daemon (CAD) and the scheduler in the Backup-Archive client 5.1.0.0 through 5.1.8.1, 5.2.0.0 through 5.2.5.2, 5.3.0.0 through 5.3.6.1, 5.4.0.0 through 5.4.2.2, and 5.5.0.0 through 5.5.0.91 in IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM); and the Backup-Archive client in TSM Express; allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by sending a large amount of crafted data to a TCP port.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

10.0

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v2.010highAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:Cprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 10 · impact 10

v2.08.5highAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-119USprimary

affected products (7)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
ibm tivoli storage manager client5.1 → 5.1.8.1nvdUScpe:2.3:a:ibm:tivoli_storage_manager_client:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
ibm tivoli storage manager client5.2 → 5.2.5.2nvdUScpe:2.3:a:ibm:tivoli_storage_manager_client:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
ibm tivoli storage manager client5.3 → 5.3.6.1nvdUScpe:2.3:a:ibm:tivoli_storage_manager_client:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
ibm tivoli storage manager client5.4 → 5.4.2.2nvdUScpe:2.3:a:ibm:tivoli_storage_manager_client:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
ibm tivoli storage manager client5.5.0.0 → 5.5.0.91nvdUScpe:2.3:a:ibm:tivoli_storage_manager_client:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
ibm tivoli storage manager expressall versionsnvdUScpe:2.3:a:ibm:tivoli_storage_manager_express:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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sources

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enisa_euvd nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2008-10-31modified 2026-06-16

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