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Fencer Vulns
critical 9.3

CVE-2008-4453 in the critical feed json

The GdPicture (1) Light Imaging Toolkit 4.7.1 GdPicture4S.Imaging ActiveX control (gdpicture4s.ocx) 4.7.0.1 and (2) Pro Imaging SDK 5.7.1 G…

published 2008-10-06 18 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2008-4434

cvss
9.3
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
10.5%
EPSS 10.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 95%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

The GdPicture (1) Light Imaging Toolkit 4.7.1 GdPicture4S.Imaging ActiveX control (gdpicture4s.ocx) 4.7.0.1 and (2) Pro Imaging SDK 5.7.1 GdPicturePro5S.Imaging ActiveX control (gdpicturepro5s.ocx) 5.7.0.1 allows remote attackers to create, overwrite, and modify arbitrary files via the SaveAsPDF method. NOTE: this issue might only be exploitable in limited environments or non-default browser settings. NOTE: this can be leveraged for remote code execution by accessing files using hcp:// URLs. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

Patch / fix

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-6638)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

10.47% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 95% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-6638 GdPicture Pro - ActiveX 'gdpicture4s.ocx' File Overwrite / Exec remote, 2008-09-30
  • securityfocus.com http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31504 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 9.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls

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.