THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2007-4034
HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2007-4034

Widgets vulnerability

CVSS
9.3
EPSS
13.0%
EPSS pct
96th
Exploited
No known
Stack-based buffer overflow in the YDPCTL.YDPControl.1 (aka Yahoo! Installer Plugin for Widgets) ActiveX control before 2007.7.13.3 (20070620) in YDPCTL.dll in Yahoo! Widgets before 4.0.5 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long argument to the GetComponentVersion method. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.
Affected vendor
Yahoo
Affected product
Widgets
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within Memory Bounds
Published
2007-07-27

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 13.0% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 96% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2007-4034

  • Confirm whether Yahoo Widgets is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2007-4034.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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