{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2007-4890 exists.","fix":"No fix has been published for CVE-2007-4890 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.","what":"CVE-2007-4890 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in Microsoft Visual Studio, published on 14 Sep 2007. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2007-4890 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2007-4890 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in Microsoft Visual Studio, published on 14 Sep 2007. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.\nExploitation: It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2007-4890 exists.\n\nAffected product: Microsoft Visual Studio. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2007-4890/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2007-4890/index.md)","id":"CVE-2007-4890","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2007-4890/index.md","name":"CVE-2007-4890","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-9q4p-wv38-76g5"],"analysis":{"component_type":"desktop_application","fix_type":"no_fix_stated","impacts":["data_modify","data_read"],"network_reachable":"yes","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Visual Studio ActiveX","requires_auth":"none","summary":"Remote attackers can create or overwrite arbitrary files via path traversal in a Visual Studio ActiveX control, requiring user interaction.","user_interaction":"required","vuln_class":"path_traversal"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"mitre","cpe":[{"product":"visual_studio","vendor":"microsoft"}],"cvss":{"score":5.8,"severity":"medium","source":"nvd","vector":"AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P","version":"2.0"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-22","name":"Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory"}],"description":"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.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":1,"first_seen":"2007-09-11","github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[{"date":"2007-09-11","kind":"exploitdb","ref":"4394","stars":null,"title":"Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0 - 'VBTOVSI.dll 1.0.0.0' File Overwrite"}],"tier":"weaponised"},"has_fix":null,"headline":"Path traversal in n/a","id":"CVE-2007-4890","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":"microsoft:visual_studio","products":["microsoft:visual_studio"],"type":"path_traversal","year":"2007"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":5,"next":{"headline":"Command injection in n/a","id":"CVE-2007-4891"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"Security feature bypass in n/a","id":"CVE-2007-4889"},"products":["n/a"],"published":"2007-09-14","related":[{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Visual Studio Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability","id":"CVE-2025-49739","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2025-07-08"},{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Visual Studio Remote Code Execution Vulnerability","id":"CVE-2022-35777","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2022-08-09"},{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Visual Studio Remote Code Execution Vulnerability","id":"CVE-2022-35825","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2022-08-09"},{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Visual Studio Remote Code Execution Vulnerability","id":"CVE-2022-35826","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2022-08-09"},{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Visual Studio Remote Code Execution Vulnerability","id":"CVE-2022-35827","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2022-08-09"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Visual Studio Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability","id":"CVE-2024-20656","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2024-01-09"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Diagnostics Hub Standard Collector Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability","id":"CVE-2021-28313","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2021-04-13"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"GPL-2.0-or-later","name":"Exploit-DB"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2024-08-07","vendors":["n/a"]},"summary":"Remote attackers can create or overwrite arbitrary files via path traversal in a Visual Studio ActiveX control, requiring user interaction.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2007-4890/"}