CVE-2007-4890
Absolute directory traversal vulnerability in a certain ActiveX control in the VB To VSI Support Library (VBTOVSI.DLL) 1.0.0.0 in…
- 5.8MediumCVSS base score
- 16.4%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 3.0% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 1Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Absolute directory traversal vulnerability in a certain ActiveX control in the VB To VSI Support Library (VBTOVSI.DLL) 1.0.0.0 in Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0 allows remote attackers to create or overwrite arbitrary files via a full pathname in the argument to the SaveAs method. NOTE: contents can be copied from local files via the Load method.
Public exploit
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Exploit-DB1 entry
- Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0 - 'VBTOVSI.dll 1.0.0.0' File Overwrite (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 4394remote, windowspublished 11 Sept 2007Verified
References tagged exploit1 reference
- 4394 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
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Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 1 day later
· 1 day later
Published
- 17 years later
· 17 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium5.8 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 16.4% · top 3.0% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.8.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
5
- http://shinnai.altervista.org/exploits/txt/TXT_qwFZc3a35RLy5AGxVBjJ.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- visualstudio-vbtovsi-file-overwrite(36571) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 4394 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- 26779 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 25635 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2007-4871 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2007-4890)Record last updated .