HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2008-4453

Light Imaging Toolkit vulnerability

CVSS
9.3
EPSS
10.5%
EPSS pct
95th
Exploited
No known
The GdPicture (1) Light Imaging Toolkit 4.7.1 GdPicture4S.Imaging ActiveX control (gdpicture4s.ocx) 4.7.0.1 and (2) Pro Imaging SDK 5.7.1 GdPicturePro5S.Imaging ActiveX control (gdpicturepro5s.ocx) 5.7.0.1 allows remote attackers to create, overwrite, and modify arbitrary files via the SaveAsPDF method. NOTE: this issue might only be exploitable in limited environments or non-default browser settings. NOTE: this can be leveraged for remote code execution by accessing files using hcp:// URLs. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.
Affected vendor
Dspicture
Affected product
Light Imaging Toolkit
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-264 — Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls
Published
2008-10-06

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 10.5% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 95% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2008-4453

  • Confirm whether Dspicture Light Imaging Toolkit is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2008-4453.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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