CVE-2007-6499

Exp

Unspecified vulnerability in Hosting Controller 6.1 Hot fix 3.3 and earlier allows remote authenticated users to uninstall the FrontPage extensions of an arbitrary account via a request to fp2002/UNINSTAL.asp with a "host id (IIS) value."

Published: 2007-12-20 Last update: 2026-04-23 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2007-6499 is rated High Exploit Risk (67.2/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 2.53%). Core evidence: 1 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). EPSS rose +1.24% over the last day, indicating growing attacker interest. Mandatory action: 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-2007-6499

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
4730 exploit_db edb 2007-12-13 Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2007-6499

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 2026-06-15 1.29% 2.53% +1.24%
2 2025-11-26 1.16% 1.29% +0.13%
3 2025-09-25 1.16%

Full EPSS history (10 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2007-6499

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
5.5 2.0 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
Access complexity (AC:L)
Exploitation conditions are straightforward and predictable.
Authentication (AU:S)
A single authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:P)
Partial confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:P)
Partial integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:N)
No availability impact.
8.0 4.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2007-6499

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2007-6499

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
hosting_controller hosting_controller <= 6.1_hotfix_3.3 cpe:2.3:a:hosting_controller:hosting_controller:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2007-6499

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