9.3
CRITICAL
CVE-2007-6387
Vantage Linguistics AnswerWorks ActiveX Control Stack-Based Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
Description

Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in the awApi4.AnswerWorks.1 ActiveX control in awApi4.dll 4.0.0.42, as used by Vantage Linguistics AnswerWorks, and Intuit Clearly Bookkeeping, ProSeries, QuickBooks, Quicken, QuickTax, and TurboTax, allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via long arguments to the (1) GetHistory, (2) GetSeedQuery, (3) SetSeedQuery, and possibly other methods. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

INFO

Published Date :

Dec. 15, 2007, 2:46 a.m.

Last Modified :

Nov. 21, 2024, 12:40 a.m.

Remotely Exploitable :

Yes !

Impact Score :

10.0

Exploitability Score :

8.6
Affected Products

The following products are affected by CVE-2007-6387 vulnerability. Even if cvefeed.io is aware of the exact versions of the products that are affected, the information is not represented in the table below.

ID Vendor Product Action
1 Intuit bookkeeping
2 Intuit proseries
3 Intuit quickbooks
4 Intuit quicken
5 Intuit quicktax
6 Intuit turbo_tax
1 Microsoft activex
1 Vantage_linquistics answerworks

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  • CVE Modified by af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

    Nov. 21, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/26566
    Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/26670
    Added Reference http://support.quickbooks.intuit.com/support/qbupdate2007/Default.aspx
    Added Reference http://www.intuit.com/support/security/
    Added Reference http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26815
    Added Reference http://www.vantagelinguistics.com/answerworks/release/
    Added Reference http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/4194
    Added Reference http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/4195
    Added Reference https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/39004
    Added Reference https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/4825
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    May. 14, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Sep. 29, 2017

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Removed Reference http://www.milw0rm.com/exploits/4825 [No Types Assigned]
    Added Reference https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/4825 [No Types Assigned]
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Aug. 08, 2017

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Removed Reference http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/39004 [No Types Assigned]
    Added Reference https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/39004 [No Types Assigned]
  • Initial Analysis by [email protected]

    Dec. 17, 2007

    Action Type Old Value New Value
EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days. Following chart shows the EPSS score history of the vulnerability.
Exploit Prediction

EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days.

51.38 }} -8.28%

score

0.97658

percentile

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