Path Traversal in Microsoft Visual Studio
CVE-2007-4890
Absolute directory traversal vulnerability in a certain ActiveX control in the VB To VSI Support Library (VBTOVSI.DLL) 1.0.0.0 in Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0 allows remote attackers to create or overwrite arbitrary files via a full pathname in the argument to the SaveAs method. NOTE: contents can be copied from local files via the Load method.
Vulnerability class: Path Traversal (Directory Traversal)
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 5.8 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.164 (96.9th percentile), scored .
Moderate probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — watch for active exploitation reports. 97th percentile — 96.9% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.164 · newest: 0.164 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Microsoft Visual Studio — versions 6.0
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- shinnai.altervista.org/exploits/txt/TXT_qwFZc3a35RLy5AGxVBjJ.html
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/36571 (vdb-entry)
- www.exploit-db.com/exploits/4394 (exploit)
- secunia.com/advisories/26779 (third-party-advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/25635 (vdb-entry)