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CVE-2008-1898in critical feed4 exploits

A certain ActiveX control in WkImgSrv.dll 7.03.0616.0, as distributed in Microsoft Works 7 and Microsoft Office 2003 and 2007, allows remot…

Published 18 y ago · modified 4 mo ago · JSON

CVSS
9.3
v2.0 · NVD
CISA KEV
No
not known exploited
EPSS
52.0%
percentile 99%
Public exploits
4
Metasploit · Exploit-DB

A certain ActiveX control in WkImgSrv.dll 7.03.0616.0, as distributed in Microsoft Works 7 and Microsoft Office 2003 and 2007, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (browser crash) via an invalid WksPictureInterface property value, which triggers an improper function call.

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

52.03% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 99% of all scored CVEs.

Exploits and detections

  • Metasploit exploit/windows/fileformat/msworks_wkspictureinterface Microsoft Works 7 WkImgSrv.dll WKsPictureInterface() ActiveX Code Execution · metasploit exploit, low rank · 2008-11-28
  • EDB-5530 Microsoft Works 7 - 'WkImgSrv.dll' ActiveX Remote Buffer Overflow · remote · 2008-05-02
  • EDB-5460 Microsoft Works 7 - 'WkImgSrv.dll' ActiveX Denial of Service (PoC) · dos · 2008-04-17
  • EDB-16649 Microsoft Works 7 - 'WkImgSrv.dll' WKsPictureInterface() ActiveX (Metasploit) · remote · 2010-09-25

CVSS scores

Assigned byVersionScoreVector
NVD2.09.3AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

References

  • blogs.technet.com /swi/archive/2008/06/05/why-there-wont-be-a-security-update-for-wkimgsrv-dll.aspx · x_refsource_MISC, x_transferred
  • exploit-db.com /exploits/5530 · exploit, x_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB, x_transferred
  • securityfocus.com /bid/28820 · vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID, x_transferred
  • archives.neohapsis.com /archives/fulldisclosure/2008-05/0029.html · mailing-list, x_refsource_FULLDISC, x_transferred
  • securityfocus.com /archive/1/491027/100/0/threaded · mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ, x_transferred
  • exploit-db.com /exploits/5460 · exploit, x_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB, x_transferred
  • exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com /vulnerabilities/41876 · vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF, x_transferred

Sources

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