CVE-2008-2434: Trend Micro Housecall

High severity, CVSS 9.3. EPSS: 7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Trend Micro HouseCall ActiveX control 6.51.0.1028 and 6.6.0.1278 in Housecall_ActiveX.dll allows remote attackers to download an arbitrary library file onto a client system via a "custom update server" argument. NOTE: this can be leveraged for code execution by writing to a Startup folder.

Affected products

• Trend Micro Housecall: version 6.6 only; version 6.6.0.1278 only; version 6.51.0.1028 only

Published 2008-12-23. Last modified 2026-06-16.