THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2007-4254
MEDIUM SEVERITY

CVE-2007-4254

Visual Database Tools Database Designer vulnerability

CVSS
6.8
EPSS
11.5%
EPSS pct
96th
Exploited
No known
Stack-based buffer overflow in a certain ActiveX control in VDT70.DLL in Microsoft Visual Database Tools Database Designer 7.0 for Microsoft Visual Studio 6 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long argument to the NotSafe method. NOTE: this may overlap CVE-2007-2885 or CVE-2005-2127.
Affected vendor
Microsoft
Affected product
Visual Database Tools Database Designer
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Published
2007-08-08

Risk analysis

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

Its EPSS score of 11.5% 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-2007-4254

  • Confirm whether Microsoft Visual Database Tools Database Designer is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2007-4254.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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