FKIE_CVE-2007-4420

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2007-08-18 21:17 - Updated: 2026-06-16 22:44
Severity
Summary
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.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://osvdb.org/38794
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.ocxt.com/archives/39
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25344Exploit
cve@mitre.orghttps://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/36055
cve@mitre.orghttps://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/4290
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://osvdb.org/38794
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.ocxt.com/archives/39
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25344Exploit
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/36055
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/4290
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
edraw office_viewer_component 5.1
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