CVE-2008-3879

Ultra Office Control vulnerability

CVSS

9.3

EPSS

3.7%

EPSS pct

89th

Exploited

No known

The Ultra.OfficeControl ActiveX control in OfficeCtrl.ocx 2.0.2008.801 and earlier in Ultra Shareware Ultra Office Control allows remote attackers to force the download of arbitrary files onto a client system via a URL in the first argument to the Open method, in conjunction with a full destination pathname in the first argument (SaveAsDocument argument) to the Save method.

Affected vendor

Ultrashareware

Affected product

Ultra Office Control

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Weakness type (CWE)

CWE-20 — Improper Input Validation

Published

2008-09-02

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 3.7% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 89% of all scored CVEs.

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Confirm whether Ultrashareware Ultra Office Control is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2008-3879.
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