CVE-2007-5446 — Absolute path traversal vulnerability in a certain ActiveX control in PBEmail7Ax.dll in PBEmail 7 ActiveX Edition allows remote attackers to create or overwrite arbitrary files via a full pathname in the XmlFilePath argument to the SaveSenderToXml method

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Absolute path traversal vulnerability in a certain ActiveX control in PBEmail7Ax.dll in PBEmail 7 ActiveX Edition allows remote attackers to create or overwrite arbitrary files via a full pathname in the XmlFilePath argument to the SaveSenderToXml method

Published Oct 14, 2007

6.4

MEDIUM

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 5.79%

Description

Absolute path traversal vulnerability in a certain ActiveX control in PBEmail7Ax.dll in PBEmail 7 ActiveX Edition allows remote attackers to create or overwrite arbitrary files via a full pathname in the XmlFilePath argument to the SaveSenderToXml method.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

5.79% 0.05790

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

EPSS probability 0.05790

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 (13 key points)

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

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	5.79% (0.05790)	92.88th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	5.79% (0.05790)	92.11th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	1.84% (0.01839)	81.77th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	1.07% (0.01066)	84.83th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Jul 10, 2024	1.00% (0.00999)	83.76th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 17, 2024	1.20% (0.01199)	84.85th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Feb 8, 2024	1.48% (0.01479)	86.36th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Oct 20, 2023	1.52% (0.01517)	85.55th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Sep 14, 2023	1.50% (0.01502)	85.34th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	2.13% (0.02130)	87.45th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	4.19% (0.04187)	87.39th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	4.19% (0.04187)	86.11th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	4.19% (0.04187)	69.86th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-22

Path Traversal

References (3)

http://osvdb.org/43481
vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26058
vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/4526
exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB

Link	Providers	Tags
http://osvdb.org/43481		vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26058		vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/4526		exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Oct 14, 2007

Updated Aug 7, 2024

Reserved Oct 14, 2007

Link CVE-2007-5446

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 16, 2026

Link CVE-2007-5446

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2007-5446