CVE-2007-4891: Microsoft Visual Studio

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 31% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Microsoft Visual Studio: version 6.0 only; version 6.0.0.9782 only

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