Not a U.S. government website. NDD is an independent vulnerability database by Volerion and is not affiliated with or endorsed by NIST or NVD.
VOLERION
Volerion Security Research

NOT DEFERRED DATABASE

VULNERABILITIES

CVE-2007-4058 Details

Description

Absolute path traversal vulnerability in a certain ActiveX control in vielib.dll 2.2.5.42958 in EMC VMware 6.0.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary local programs via a full pathname in the first argument to the StartProcess method.

Metrics

CVSS 3.x Severity and Vector Strings:

No CVSS 3.x data is available for this CVE.

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

By selecting these links, you will be leaving this site. These are references gathered from the official CVE record and are not endorsed by Volerion.

URLSource(s)Tag(s)
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/35673 CVE
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/4244 CVE
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25118 CVE
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/35673 [email protected]
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/4244 [email protected]

see all 6 references

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-IDCWE NameSource
CWE-22Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')[email protected]

Affected Products

ProductVersions
emc vmware
6.0.0

CPE

  • cpe:2.3:a:emc:vmware:6.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Remediation

  • No remediation found in references.

Change History

7 change records found show changes

QUICK INFO

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2007-4058
NVD Published Date:
Jul 30, 2007
NVD Last Modified:
Jun 16, 2026
Source:
[email protected]