CVE-2007-4420 — Absolute path traversal vulnerability in a certain ActiveX control in officeviewer.ocx 5.1.199.1 in EDraw Office Viewer Component 5.1 allows remote attackers to create or overwrite arbitrary files via a full pathname in the second argument to the HttpDownloadFile method, a different vulnerability than CVE-2007-3168 and CVE-2007-3169

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Absolute path traversal vulnerability in a certain ActiveX control in officeviewer.ocx 5.1.199.1 in EDraw Office Viewer Component 5.1 allows remote attackers to create or overwrite arbitrary files via a full pathname in the second argument to the HttpDownloadFile method, a different vulnerability than CVE-2007-3168 and CVE-2007-3169

Published Aug 18, 2007

9.3

HIGH

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 2.92%

Description

Absolute path traversal vulnerability in a certain ActiveX control in officeviewer.ocx 5.1.199.1 in EDraw Office Viewer Component 5.1 allows remote attackers to create or overwrite arbitrary files via a full pathname in the second argument to the HttpDownloadFile method, a different vulnerability than CVE-2007-3168 and CVE-2007-3169.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

2.92% 0.02918

Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.

EPSS probability 0.02918

Score over time

2022–2026

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Percentile over time

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Table of values (14 key points)

Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	2.92% (0.02918)	86.54th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	2.92% (0.02918)	85.18th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Nov 8, 2025	3.84% (0.03839)	87.67th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Mar 30, 2025	2.73% (0.02732)	84.67th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Mar 29, 2025	4.57% (0.04574)	81.65th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Mar 17, 2025	2.73% (0.02732)	84.98th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	2.75% (0.02753)	90.94th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Jun 21, 2024	2.75% (0.02753)	90.63th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
May 14, 2024	2.58% (0.02584)	90.21th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Apr 6, 2024	6.10% (0.06103)	93.39th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	6.23% (0.06233)	92.42th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	4.48% (0.04482)	88.77th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	4.48% (0.04482)	87.66th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	4.48% (0.04482)	71.45th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-22

Path Traversal

References (5)

http://osvdb.org/38794
vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
http://www.ocxt.com/archives/39
x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25344
vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDExploit
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/36055
vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/4290
exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB

Link	Providers	Tags
http://osvdb.org/38794		vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
http://www.ocxt.com/archives/39		x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25344		vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDExploit
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/36055		vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/4290		exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Aug 18, 2007

Updated Aug 7, 2024

Reserved Aug 18, 2007

Link CVE-2007-4420

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 16, 2026

Link CVE-2007-4420

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2007-4420