Vulnerability Report

CVE-2007-2856

RCE

Title: Microsoft Internet Explorer RCE

RCE

Proof Of Concept

PoC Available for CVE-2007-2856

CWE Category CWE-119

Published Date May 24, 2007

Modified Date Apr 09, 2025

Exploit Status Available

Score 9.3 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

18.17%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2007-2856: Buffer overflow in the Dart Communications PowerTCP ZIP Compression ActiveX control in DartZip.dll 1.8.5.3, when Internet Explorer 6 is used, allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long first argument to the QuickZip function, a related issue to CVE-2007-2855.

Impacted Vendors

microsoft 1

dart 1

Reference Links

http://osvdb.org/38111 http://retrogod.altervista.org/ie_DartZip_bof.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/469503/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/469592/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/24142 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/24163 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/34494 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/34520 http://osvdb.org/38111 http://retrogod.altervista.org/ie_DartZip_bof.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/469503/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/469592/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/24142 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/24163 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/34494 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/34520

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

9.3

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2007-2856 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

Exploit-DB https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/3982

View Code

Exploit-DB https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/3984

View Code

April 09, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

May 24, 2007 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.