CVE-2007-4890

Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0 - 'VBTOVSI.dll 1.0.0.0' File Overwrite

Severity Score

6.2

*CVSS v3

Exploit Likelihood

*EPSS

Affected Versions

*CPE

Public Exploits

*Multiple Sources

Exploited in Wild

*KEV

Decision

*SSVC

Descriptions

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.

Vulnerabilidad de salto de directorio absoluto en un determinado control ActiveX en la biblioteca de Soporte VB a VSI (VBTOVSI.DLL) 1.0.0.0 de Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0 permite a atacantes remotos crear o sobre-escribir ficheros de su elección mediante un nombre de ruta completo en el argumento del método SaveAs. NOTA: Los contenidos pueden ser copiados de ficheros locales mediante el método Load.

*Credits: N/A

Attack Vector

Local

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

High

Availability

None

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Medium

Authentication

None

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

Partial

Availability

Partial

* Common Vulnerability Scoring System

SSVC

Decision:-

Exploitation

Automatable

Tech. Impact

* Organization's Worst-case Scenario

Timeline

2007-09-13 CVE Reserved
2007-09-14 CVE Published
2024-08-07 CVE Updated
2024-08-07 First Exploit
2025-03-30 EPSS Updated
---------- Exploited in Wild
---------- KEV Due Date

CWE

CWE-22: Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')

CAPEC

References (5)

URL	Tag	Source
http://secunia.com/advisories/26779	Third Party Advisory
http://shinnai.altervista.org/exploits/txt/TXT_qwFZc3a35RLy5AGxVBjJ.html	X_refsource_misc
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25635	Vdb Entry
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/36571	Vdb Entry

URL	Date	SRC
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/4394	2024-08-07

URL	Date	SRC

URL	Date	SRC

Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions

Vendor		Product				Version		Other		Status
Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status	<-- -->	Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status
Microsoft Search vendor "Microsoft"		Visual Studio Search vendor "Microsoft" for product "Visual Studio"				6.0 Search vendor "Microsoft" for product "Visual Studio" and version "6.0"		-		Affected