CVE-2007-4891 (GCVE-0-2007-4891)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2007-09-14 01:00
Modified
2024-08-07 15:08
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
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.
References
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/36572 vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/4393 exploit, x_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB
http://shinnai.altervista.org/exploits/txt/TXT_AZJ5bXwXvMARqwtfe97I.html x_refsource_MISC
http://osvdb.org/37106 vdb-entry, x_refsource_OSVDB
http://secunia.com/advisories/26779 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25638 vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a n/a Version: n/a
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