CVE-2007-4890

medium

Description

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.

References

https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/4394

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/36571

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25635

http://shinnai.altervista.org/exploits/txt/TXT_qwFZc3a35RLy5AGxVBjJ.html

http://secunia.com/advisories/26779

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2007-09-14

Updated: 2026-06-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5.8

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

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.2

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.1636