CVE-2007-4420 - CVE House
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Status published Critical CVE-2007-4420

Absolute path traversal vulnerability in a certain ActiveX control in...

Vulnerability Description

Absolute path traversal vulnerability in a certain ActiveX control in officeviewer.ocx 5.1.199.1 in EDraw Office Viewer Component 5.1 allows remote attackers to create or overwrite arbitrary files via a full pathname in the second argument to the HttpDownloadFile method, a different vulnerability than CVE-2007-3168 and CVE-2007-3169.

Impact Analysis

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Remediation

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Credits & Attribution

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References

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

office viewer component
Vulnerable Versions:
5.1

Timeline

Official Publish: August 18th, 2007
Last Modified: August 7th, 2024
Added to House: July 18th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

Weaknesses (CWE)

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MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

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