RCE in Microsoft Visual Studio

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.

Vulnerability class: Command Injection (OS Command Injection)

EPSS: 0.310 (98.1th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

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