Vulnerability record · CVE-2007-4891 · published 14 September 2007

CVE-2007-4891: Microsoft visual studio os command injection vulnerability

Microsoft · Visual Studio

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.

6.8 CVSS 2.0 Medium EPSS 31% · top 1.8% CWE-78 · OS command injection

6.8CVSS 2.0 base score

31%EPSS exploitation probability, 30 days

NoNot in CISA KEV

1Affected product versions listed by NVD

12References, 2 tagged exploit

16 Jun 2026Last modified by NVD

Description

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected products

1 vulnerable configurations from NVD's CPE data, grouped by vendor and product.

Visual Studio Microsoft

References

Link	Tags
http://osvdb.org/37106
http://secunia.com/advisories/26779
http://shinnai.altervista.org/exploits/txt/TXT_AZJ5bXwXvMARqwtfe97I.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25638	Exploit
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/36572
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/4393
http://osvdb.org/37106
http://secunia.com/advisories/26779
http://shinnai.altervista.org/exploits/txt/TXT_AZJ5bXwXvMARqwtfe97I.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25638	Exploit
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/36572
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/4393

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Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database (record CVE-2007-4891), CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS (scores of 2026-09-27). This page is refreshed as NVD updates the record.