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CVE-2007-4891
published 2007-09-14

CVE-2007-4891: 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…

PriorityP341medium6.8CVSS 2.0
AVNACMAuNCPIPAP
EXPLOIT
EPSS
31.00%
98.0th percentile
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.

Affected

2 ranges
VendorProductVersion rangeFixed in
microsoftvisual_studio
microsoftvisual_studio

Detection & IOCsextracted from sources · hover to see the quote

filenamePDWizard.ocx
commandtest.StartProcess "c:\windows\system32\calc.exe", "False"
  • Detect ActiveX instantiation of PDWizard.ocx in browser context, particularly calls to StartProcess() or SyncShell() methods with absolute path arguments, which indicate exploitation attempts.
  • Monitor for invocation of the dangerous methods StartProcess, SyncShell, SaveAs, CABDefaultURL, CABFileName, and CABRunFile on the PDWizard ActiveX control from web content (e.g., Internet Explorer).
  • Alert on child processes spawned by Internet Explorer (iexplore.exe) that originate from ActiveX method calls to PDWizard.ocx, as the PoC demonstrates arbitrary process execution via StartProcess().
  • ·The vulnerability affects PDWizard.ocx version 6.0.0.9782 and earlier; detections should be scoped to this version range.
  • ·The PoC was tested specifically on Windows XP Professional SP2 with Internet Explorer 7; exploit behavior may differ on other OS/browser combinations.
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