EDraw Office Viewer Component 5.1 ActiveX Control officeviewer.ocx second path traversal

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A vulnerability was found in EDraw Office Viewer Component 5.1 and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is some unknown processing of the file officeviewer.ocx of the component ActiveX Control. The manipulation of the argument second with an unknown input leads to a path traversal vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-22. The product uses external input to construct a pathname that is intended to identify a file or directory that is located underneath a restricted parent directory, but the product does not properly neutralize special elements within the pathname that can cause the pathname to resolve to a location that is outside of the restricted directory. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Absolute path traversal vulnerability in a certain ActiveX control in officeviewer.ocx 5.1.199.1 in EDraw Office Viewer Component 5.1 allows remote attackers to create or overwrite arbitrary files via a full pathname in the second argument to the HttpDownloadFile method, a different vulnerability than CVE-2007-3168 and CVE-2007-3169.

The bug was discovered 08/16/2007. The weakness was presented 08/16/2007 by shinnai (Website). The advisory is shared for download at ocxt.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2007-4420 since 08/18/2007. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. Technical details as well as a public exploit are known. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1006.

After immediately, there has been an exploit disclosed. The exploit is available at securityfocus.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 26013 (Office Viewer Component ActiveX (officeviewer.ocx) HttpDownloadFile Method Traversal Arbitrary File Overwrite), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Windows and running in the context l.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (36055), Exploit-DB (4290), Tenable (26013), SecurityFocus (BID 25344†) and OSVDB (38794†). If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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Class: Path traversal
CWE: CWE-22
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Nessus ID: 26013
Nessus Name: Office Viewer Component ActiveX (officeviewer.ocx) HttpDownloadFile Method Traversal Arbitrary File Overwrite
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Advisory: ocxt.com
Researcher: shinnai
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CVE: CVE-2007-4420 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2007-4420
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-38408
X-Force: 36055
SecurityFocus: 25344 - EDraw Office Viewer Component ActiveX Control Arbitrary File Overwrite Vulnerability
OSVDB: 38794 - EDraw Office Viewer Component ActiveX (officeviewer.ocx) HttpDownloadFile Method Traversal Arbitrary File Overwrite
Vulnerability Center: 16058 - EDraw Office Viewer Component 5.1 Absolute Path Traversal Vulnerability, Medium

scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20161013

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Created: 03/16/2015 12:18 PM
Updated: 09/30/2024 09:47 AM
Changes: 03/16/2015 12:18 PM (76), 07/25/2019 06:05 PM (2), 09/30/2024 09:47 AM (17)
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