Microsoft Rich Textbox ActiveX control SaveFile vulnerability

Added: 10/07/2008 CVE: CVE-2008-0237 BID: 27201 OSVDB: 40234 Background Microsoft Rich Textbox is an ActiveX control which comes with Visual Basic and allows creation of formatted text in RTF files. It is located in the Richtx32.ocx file. Problem The SaveFile method in the Rich Textbox ActiveX...

CVE-2008-0237

The Microsoft Rich Textbox ActiveX Control RICHTX32.OCX 6.1.97.82 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands by invoking the insecure SaveFile method...

CVE-2008-0237

The CVE-2008-0237 entry involves the Microsoft Rich Textbox ActiveX control (Richtx32.ocx, v6.1.97.82). The vulnerability lies in the SaveFile method, which can be abused to create or overwrite arbitrary files via a web page, enabling remote access to write files on the target system. Exploitatio...