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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.

  • Published: Sep 14, 2007
  • Updated: Apr 13, 2023
  • CVE: CVE-2007-4891
  • Severity: Medium
  • Exploit:

CVSS v2:

  • Severity: Medium
  • Score: 6.8
  • AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

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Software From Fixed in
microsoft / visual_studio 6.0 6.0.x
microsoft / visual_studio 6.0.0.9782 6.0.0.9782.x