CVE-2007-2496

Word Viewer Ocx vulnerability

CVSS

7.8

EPSS

3.8%

EPSS pct

89th

Exploited

No known

The WordOCX ActiveX control in WordViewer.ocx 3.2.0.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (Internet Explorer 7 crash) via a long (1) DoOleCommand, (2) FTPDownloadFile, (3) FTPUploadFile, (4) HttpUploadFile, (5) GotoPage, (6) Save, (7) SaveWebFile, (8) HttpDownloadFile, (9) Open, (10) OpenWebFile, (11) SaveAs, or (12) ShowWordStandardDialog property value.

Affected vendor

Office Ocx

Affected product

Word Viewer Ocx

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Published

2007-05-04

Risk analysis

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

Its EPSS score of 3.8% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 89% of all scored CVEs.

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Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2007-2496.
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