CVE-2007-4420

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2007-08-18 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-22

Description

Absolute path traversal vulnerability in a certain ActiveX control in officeviewer.ocx 5.1.199.1 in EDraw Office Viewer Component 5.1 allows remote attackers to create or overwrite arbitrary files via a full pathname in the second argument to the HttpDownloadFile method, a different vulnerability than CVE-2007-3168 and CVE-2007-3169.

Affected products

Edraw Office Viewer Component: 5.1

References

http://osvdb.org/38794
http://www.ocxt.com/archives/39
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25344
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/36055
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/4290
http://osvdb.org/38794
http://www.ocxt.com/archives/39
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25344
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/36055
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/4290

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