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Fencer Vulns
high 7.5

CVE-2007-4790 in the critical feed json

Stack-based buffer overflow in certain ActiveX controls in (1) FPOLE.OCX 6.0.8450.0 and (2) Foxtlib.ocx, as used in the Microsoft Visual Fo…

published 2007-09-10 19 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2007-4771

cvss
7.5
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
54.9%
EPSS 54.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 99%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

Stack-based buffer overflow in certain ActiveX controls in (1) FPOLE.OCX 6.0.8450.0 and (2) Foxtlib.ocx, as used in the Microsoft Visual FoxPro 6.0 fpole 1.0 Type Library; and Internet Explorer 5.01, 6 SP1 and SP2, and 7; allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long first argument to the FoxDoCmd function.

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-4369)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

54.91% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 99% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-4369 Microsoft Visual FoxPro 6.0 - FPOLE.OCX 6.0.8450.0 Remote (PoC) dos, 2007-09-06
  • securityfocus.com http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25571 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.