CVEvulnerability
CVE-2007-4891
6.8 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2007-09-14
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-78
Description
A certain ActiveX control in PDWizard.ocx 6.0.0.9782 and earlier in Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0 exposes dangerous (1) StartProcess, (2) SyncShell, (3) SaveAs, (4) CABDefaultURL, (5) CABFileName, and (6) CABRunFile methods, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary programs and have other impacts, as demonstrated using absolute pathnames in arguments to StartProcess and SyncShell.
Affected configurations
• microsoft visual studio 6.0
• microsoft visual studio 6.0.0.9782
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-78 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command weakness
References
- http://osvdb.org/37106 osvdb.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26779 secunia.com
- http://shinnai.altervista.org/exploits/txt/TXT_AZJ5bXwXvMARqwtfe97I.html shinnai.altervista.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25638 Exploit
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/36572 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/4393 www.exploit-db.com
- http://osvdb.org/37106 osvdb.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26779 secunia.com
- http://shinnai.altervista.org/exploits/txt/TXT_AZJ5bXwXvMARqwtfe97I.html shinnai.altervista.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25638 Exploit
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/36572 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/4393 www.exploit-db.com