HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2007-0025

Visual Studio .Net vulnerability

CVSS
9.3
EPSS
36.5%
EPSS pct
98th
Exploited
No known
The MFC component in Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4, XP SP2, and 2003 SP1 and Visual Studio .NET 2000, 2002 SP1, 2003, and 2003 SP1 allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an RTF file with a malformed OLE object that triggers memory corruption. NOTE: this might be due to a stack-based buffer overflow in the AfxOleSetEditMenu function in MFC42u.dll.
Affected vendor
Microsoft
Affected product
Visual Studio .Net
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weakness type (CWE)
Published
2007-02-13

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, medium attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to complete impact to confidentiality, complete impact to integrity, complete impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 36.5% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 98% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2007-0025

  • Confirm whether Microsoft Visual Studio .Net is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2007-0025.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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