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CVE-2007-4891

medium · 6.8

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.

6.8
CVSS
31.0%
EPSS (exploit prob.)
98th
EPSS percentile
2007-09-14
Published

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

Weaknesses

CWE-78

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
microsoftvisual_studio6.0
microsoftvisual_studio6.0.0.9782

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References

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