CVE-2007-4155 (GCVE-0-2007-4155)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2007-08-03 21:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 14:46
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Summary
Absolute path traversal vulnerability in a certain ActiveX control in vielib.dll in EMC VMware 6.0.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary local programs via a full pathname in the first two arguments to the (1) CreateProcess or (2) CreateProcessEx method.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2007-07-30 00:00
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