RCE in Microsoft Windows Vista
CVE-2007-0675
A certain ActiveX control in sapi.dll (aka the Speech API) in Speech Components in Microsoft Windows Vista, when the Speech Recognition feature is enabled, allows user-assisted remote attackers to delete arbitrary files, and conduct other unauthorized activities, via a web page with an embedded sound object that contains voice commands to an enabled microphone, allowing for interaction with Windows Explorer.
Vulnerability class: RCE (Remote Code Execution)
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 7.6 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.177 (97.1th percentile), scored .
Moderate probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — watch for active exploitation reports. 97th percentile — 97.1% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.172 · newest: 0.177 · change: +0.005
Affected products
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- blogs.technet.com/msrc/archive/2007/01/31/issue-regarding-windows-vista-speech-…
- secunia.com/advisories/30578 (third-party-advisory)
- lists.immunitysec.com/pipermail/dailydave/2007-January/004012.html (mailing-list)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/22359 (vdb-entry)
- www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-162B.html (US Government Resource, third-party-advisory)
- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5489 (signature, vdb-entry)
- marc.info/ (vendor-advisory)
- lists.immunitysec.com/pipermail/dailydave/2007-January/004007.html (mailing-list)
- www.securitytracker.com/id (vdb-entry)
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1779/references (vdb-entry)