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CVE-2008-4342

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 17.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2008-09-30 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-20

Description

NuMedia Soft NMS DVD Burning SDK Activex NMSDVDX.DVDEngineX.1 ActiveX control (NMSDVDX.dll) 1.013C and earlier, as used in CDBurnerXP 4.2.1.976, BurnAware 2.1.3, Blaze Media Pro 8.02 Special Edition, and possibly other products, allows remote attackers to overwrite and create arbitrary files via calls to the EnableLog and LogMessage methods. NOTE: this issue might only be exploitable in limited environments or non-default browser settings. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information. NOTE: this can be leveraged for remote code execution by accessing files using hcp:// URLs.

Affected products

• Burnaware Technologies Burnaware: 2.1.3-unknown
• Impressum Cdburnerxp: 4.2.1.976
• Numedia Soft Numedia Dvd Burning Sdk: 1.008

References

• http://retrogod.altervista.org/9sg_numedia_xpl.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/31936
• http://secunia.com/advisories/31949
• http://secunia.com/advisories/31950
• http://secunia.com/advisories/32455
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/497831/100/0/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31374
• http://www.shinnai.net/xplits/TXT_TrWE9AJA8nQpuFsnxBcq
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2663
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45330
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/6491
• http://retrogod.altervista.org/9sg_numedia_xpl.html

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