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CVE-2006-6379

40
FAUCET Score

CVE-2006-6379 describes a critical buffer overflow vulnerability in the BrightStor Backup Discovery Service across several CA products, including ARCserve Backup and Enterprise Backup. This flaw allows unauthenticated remote attackers to execute arbitrary code with high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While not actively exploited in the wild or on the KEV catalog, public exploit code exists, and its high FAUCET Risk Score of 97/100 indicates significant potential for exploitation. Despite its age, the vulnerability's severity and ease of exploitation warrant attention.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
9.01CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:broadcom:brightstor_arcserve_backup:9.01:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
11CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:broadcom:brightstor_arcserve_backup:11:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
11.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:broadcom:brightstor_arcserve_backup:11.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
11.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:broadcom:brightstor_arcserve_backup:11.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
11.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:broadcom:brightstor_arcserve_backup:11.5:sp1:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

7.5HIGH

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
20.94%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
97.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-1132 · Aug 3, 2005
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.2094 is in the 96th percentile among its peer group of 51,485 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

securityreason.com / securityalert/2010
securitytracker.com / id
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/30791
supportconnectw.ca.com / public/storage/infodocs/babsecurity-notice.asp
Vendor Advisory
osvdb.org / 30775
securityfocus.com / archive/1/453916/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / bid/21502
Vendor Advisory
vupen.com / english/advisories/2006/4910