CVE-2007-4890

Summary

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.

Impact & exploitability

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

Affected products we track (1)

Recommendation

Apply the vendor fix in your normal patch cycle. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.

Additional information

• NVD record
• http://secunia.com/advisories/26779
• http://shinnai.altervista.org/exploits/txt/TXT_qwFZc3a35RLy5AGxVBjJ.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25635
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/36571
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/4394