CVE-2007-4963

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2007-09-18 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Visual truncation vulnerability in WinImage 8.10 and earlier allows remote attackers to spoof a destination filename via a long sequence of space characters in a filename within a (1) .IMG or (2) .ISO file. NOTE: this can be leveraged with a separate directory traversal vulnerability to trick a careful user into overwriting arbitrary files.

Affected products

Winimage: 8.0, 8.10

References

http://osvdb.org/45948
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3140
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/479695/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/479872/100/100/threaded
http://osvdb.org/45948
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3140
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/479695/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/479872/100/100/threaded

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