CVE-2007-4890: Microsoft Visual Studio

Medium severity, CVSS 5.8. EPSS: 16.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Microsoft Visual Studio: version 6.0 only

Published 2007-09-14. Last modified 2026-06-16.