CVE-2007-4891

Exp

A certain ActiveX control in PDWizard.ocx 6.0.0.9782 and earlier in Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0 exposes dangerous (1) StartProcess, (2) SyncShell, (3) SaveAs, (4) CABDefaultURL, (5) CABFileName, and (6) CABRunFile methods, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary programs and have other impacts, as demonstrated using absolute pathnames in arguments to StartProcess and SyncShell.

Published: 2007-09-14 Last update: 2026-04-23 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2007-4891 is rated High Exploit Risk (76.9/100): CVSS Medium severity, with high exploitation likelihood (EPSS 52.05%, 98th percentile). 2 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

Risk is dynamic; we continuously reassess and refresh what is shown on this page as upstream context changes.

Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2007-4891

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
4393 exploit_db edb 2007-09-11 Exploit-DB ↗
— nvd_ref exploit_tag Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2007-4891

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-05-03 51.67% 52.05% +0.39%
2 2025-10-09 57.93% 51.67% -6.26%
3 2025-03-30 — 57.93% —

Full EPSS history (17 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2007-4891

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
6.8 2.0 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
Access complexity (AC:M)
Exploitation needs some favorable conditions, but not exceptional ones.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:P)
Partial confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:P)
Partial integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:P)
Partial availability impact.
 8.6 6.4 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2007-4891

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2007-4891

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
microsoft visual_studio 6.0 cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:visual_studio:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
microsoft visual_studio 6.0.0.9782 cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:visual_studio:6.0.0.9782:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2007-4891

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