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.

Affected products

Visual Studio

Microsoft Visual Studio

= 6.0, 6.0.0.9782

CVSS 2.0

6.8 MEDIUM

EPSS

31.0% (98th percentile)

Weakness

CWE-78

NVD status

Modified

Published

2007-09-14