CVE-2007-6387
Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in the awApi4.AnswerWorks.1 ActiveX control in awApi4.dll 4.0.0.42, as used by Vantage Linguistics AnswerWorks, and Intuit Clearly Bookkeeping, ProSeries, QuickBooks, Quicken, QuickTax, and TurboTax, allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via long arguments to the (1) GetHistory, (2) GetSeedQuery, (3) SetSeedQuery, and possibly other methods. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.
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
- 38.0% (99th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2007-6353)
- Published
- December 15, 2007
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2007-6353 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- intuit / bookkeeping
- intuit / proseries
- intuit / quickbooks
- intuit / quicken
- intuit / quicktax
- intuit / turbo tax
- microsoft / activex
- vantage linquistics / answerworks
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26566(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26670(Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- http://support.quickbooks.intuit.com/support/qbupdate2007/Default.aspx(Patch)
- http://www.intuit.com/support/security/(Patch)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26815(Patch)
- http://www.vantagelinguistics.com/answerworks/release/(Patch)
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/4194
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/4195
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/39004
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/4825
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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