THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2007-4890
MEDIUM SEVERITY

CVE-2007-4890

Visual Studio vulnerability

CVSS
5.8
EPSS
16.4%
EPSS pct
97th
Exploited
No known
Absolute directory traversal vulnerability in a certain ActiveX control in the VB To VSI Support Library (VBTOVSI.DLL) 1.0.0.0 in Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0 allows remote attackers to create or overwrite arbitrary files via a full pathname in the argument to the SaveAs method. NOTE: contents can be copied from local files via the Load method.
Affected vendor
Microsoft
Affected product
Visual Studio
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
Weakness type (CWE)
Published
2007-09-14

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 integrity, partial impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 16.4% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 97% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2007-4890

  • Confirm whether Microsoft Visual Studio is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2007-4890.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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