CVE-2007-6189
A certain ActiveX control in (1) OScan8.ocx and (2) Oscan81.ocx in BitDefender Online Anti-Virus Scanner 8.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long argument to the InitX method that begins with a "%%" sequence, which is misinterpreted as a Unicode string and decoded twice, leading to improper memory allocation and a heap-based buffer overflow.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 9.3 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-119
- EPSS score
- 8.1% (95th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2007-6157)
- Published
- November 30, 2007
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2007-6157 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- bitdefender / online anti-virus scanner
References
- http://research.eeye.com/html/advisories/published/AD20071120.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27717(Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3405
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1018986
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/483986/100/100/threaded
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3935
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/4663
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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