HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2007-4776

Visual Basic vulnerability

CVSS
9.3
EPSS
49.0%
EPSS pct
99th
Exploited
No known
Buffer overflow in Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 and Enterprise Edition 6.0 SP6 allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a Visual Basic project (vbp) file containing a long Reference line, related to VBP_Open and OLE. NOTE: there are limited usage scenarios under which this would be a vulnerability.
Affected vendor
Microsoft
Affected product
Visual Basic
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
2007-09-10

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 49.0% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it among the most exploited CVEs currently tracked.

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  • Confirm whether Microsoft Visual Basic is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2007-4776.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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