THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2007-6026
HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2007-6026

Jet vulnerability

CVSS
9.3
EPSS
28.3%
EPSS pct
98th
Exploited
No known
Stack-based buffer overflow in Microsoft msjet40.dll 4.0.8618.0 (aka Microsoft Jet Engine), as used by Access 2003 in Microsoft Office 2003 SP3, allows user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted MDB file database file containing a column structure with a modified column count. NOTE: this might be the same issue as CVE-2005-0944.
Affected vendor
Microsoft
Affected product
Jet
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
2007-11-20

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 28.3% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 98% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2007-6026

  • Confirm whether Microsoft Jet is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2007-6026.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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