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CVE-2007-4891

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 31.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2007-09-14 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-78

Description

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

• Microsoft Visual Studio: 6.0, 6.0.0.9782

References

• http://osvdb.org/37106
• http://secunia.com/advisories/26779
• http://shinnai.altervista.org/exploits/txt/TXT_AZJ5bXwXvMARqwtfe97I.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25638
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/36572
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/4393
• http://osvdb.org/37106
• http://secunia.com/advisories/26779
• http://shinnai.altervista.org/exploits/txt/TXT_AZJ5bXwXvMARqwtfe97I.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25638
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/36572
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/4393

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