CVE-2007-5660
Unspecified vulnerability in the Update Service ActiveX control in isusweb.dll before 6.0.100.65101 in MacroVision FLEXnet Connect and…
- 9.3HighCVSS base score
- 36.6%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 1.5% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 4Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Unspecified vulnerability in the Update Service ActiveX control in isusweb.dll before 6.0.100.65101 in MacroVision FLEXnet Connect and InstallShield 2008 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an unspecified "unsafe method," possibly involving a buffer overflow.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list 2 Metasploit modules and 2 Exploit-DB entries for it.
Show the exploits4
Metasploit modules2 modules
- Macrovision InstallShield Update Service Buffer Overflow (Metasploit module) (opens in a new tab)
exploit/windows/browser/macrovision_downloadandexecuteRank normaldisclosed 31 Oct 2007
- Macrovision InstallShield Update Service ActiveX Unsafe Method (Metasploit module) (opens in a new tab)
exploit/windows/browser/macrovision_unsafeRank excellentdisclosed 20 Oct 2007
Exploit-DB2 entries
- Macrovision Installshield Update Service - ActiveX Unsafe Method (Metasploit) (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 16602remote, windowspublished 20 Sept 2010Verified
- Macrovision Installshield Update Service - Remote Buffer Overflow (Metasploit) (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 16573remote, windowspublished 9 May 2010Verified
Modules, templates and exploits as listed by the Metasploit Framework (BSD-3-Clause), ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei templates (MIT) and the Exploit Database (GPLv2), read once a day. Where the data comes from
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 10 days later
· 10 days 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 | High9.3 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 36.6% · top 1.5% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 9.3.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
10
- http://support.installshield.com/kb/view.asp?articleid=Q113020 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 27475 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 20071031 Macrovision InstallShield Update Service ActiveX Unsafe Method Vulnerability (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_IDEFENSEx_transferred
- 38347 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- ADV-2007-3670 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 1018881 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- http://www.macrovision.com/promolanding/7660.htm (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 26280 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- http://support.installshield.com/kb/view.asp?articleid=Q113602 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- macrovision-isusweb-code-execution(38210) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_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-2007-5632 (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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