CVE-2007-5826

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2007-11-05 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-22

Description

Absolute path traversal vulnerability in the EDraw Flowchart ActiveX control in EDImage.ocx 2.0.2005.1104 allows remote attackers to create or overwrite arbitrary files with arbitrary contents via a full pathname in the second argument to the HttpDownloadFile method, a different product than CVE-2007-4420.

Affected products

Edraw Flowchart Activex: through 2.3

References

http://osvdb.org/38415
http://secunia.com/advisories/27462
http://shinnai.altervista.org/exploits/txt/TXT_3kXDua0a0Tl5Vm5LU3ms.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26308
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3710
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/38223
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/4598
http://osvdb.org/38415
http://secunia.com/advisories/27462
http://shinnai.altervista.org/exploits/txt/TXT_3kXDua0a0Tl5Vm5LU3ms.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26308
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3710

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