CVE-2007-4891

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.

Score

CVSS 2.0 6.8 Medium

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2007-09-14

Last modified

2024-08-07

Weaknesses

CWE-78

Affected products

• Visual Studio (Microsoft)

References

• http://osvdb.org/37106
• http://secunia.com/advisories/26779
• http://shinnai.altervista.org/exploits/txt/TXT_AZJ5bXwXvMARqwtfe97I.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25638
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/36572
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/4393