Office Viewer Component ActiveX (officeviewer.ocx) HttpDownloadFile Method Traversal Arbitrary File Overwrite

high Nessus Plugin ID 26013

Synopsis

The remote Windows host has an ActiveX control with an insecure method.

Description

The remote host contains the Office Viewer Component, an ActiveX control for working with Microsoft Office documents.

The version of this control installed on the remote host reportedly contains an insecure method, 'HttpDownloadFile'. If an attacker can trick a user on the affected host into visiting a specially crafted web page, he may be able to use this method to place arbitrary files on the host subject to the user's privileges.

Solution

Upgrade to Office Viewer Component version 5.2 or later.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 26013

File Name: officeviewer_httpdownloadfile_activex_insecure.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: windows

Family: Windows

Published: 9/10/2007

Updated: 8/22/2018

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.3

Temporal Score: 7.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Vulnerability Information

Required KB Items: SMB/Registry/Enumerated

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/16/2007

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-4420

BID: 25344

CWE: 22

Detections

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