CVE-2008-4050: Friendly Technologies Friendly Pppoe Client

High severity, CVSS 9.3. EPSS: 6.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A certain ActiveX control in fwRemoteCfg.dll 3.3.3.1 in Friendly Technologies FriendlyPPPoE Client 3.0.0.57 allows remote attackers to (1) create and read arbitrary registry values via the RegistryValue method, and (2) read arbitrary files via the GetTextFile method.

Affected products

• Friendly Technologies Friendly Pppoe Client: version 3.0.0.57 only

Published 2008-09-11. Last modified 2026-06-16.