CVE-2015-4068 — Arcserve Unified Data Protection (UDP) Directory Traversal Vulnerability

Overview

Directory traversal vulnerability in Arcserve UDP allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information or cause a denial of service.

Vulnerability details

CVE ID

CVE-2015-4068

Vulnerability

Arcserve Unified Data Protection (UDP) Directory Traversal Vulnerability

Vendor

Arcserve

Affected products

Arcserve: Unified Data Protection (UDP)

Severity

HIGH

Exploitation status

Actively exploited in the wild (CISA KEV)

Published

2022-03-25

Remediation guidance

CVE-2015-4068 is in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog — U.S. federal civilian agencies are required to remediate it under Binding Operational Directive 22-01. Treat it as a priority for every environment.

Apply the vendor's official security update for Arcserve the affected product as soon as possible. Where a patch is unavailable, apply vendor mitigations or isolate/segment exposed systems.

Hunt for indicators of compromise tied to this vulnerability and confirm logging/EDR coverage on affected assets.

Authoritative references

• NVD — National Vulnerability Database
• MITRE CVE Record
• CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog
• FIRST EPSS — Exploit Prediction Scoring