CVE-2007-4891 (GCVE-0-2007-4891)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2007-09-14 01:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 15:08
VLAI?
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.
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CWE
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Assigner
References
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/4393 exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB
http://shinnai.altervista.org/exploits/txt/TXT_AZ… x_refsource_MISC
http://osvdb.org/37106 vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
http://secunia.com/advisories/26779 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25638 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
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