CVE-2007-6387

critical Microsoft
CVSS v3 Base Score
9.3
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
EPSS Score
57.2%
Exploitation probability in 30 days
Top 2% most likely to be exploited
Attack Characteristics
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
M
Confidentiality
C
Integrity
C
Availability
C
Published: December 15, 2007 (6725 days ago)
Last Modified: April 23, 2026
Vendor: Microsoft
Source: NVD

Description

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.

CWE

CWE-119

Affected Products

intuit bookkeepingintuit proseriesintuit quickbooksintuit quickenintuit quicktaxintuit turbo taxmicrosoft activexvantage linquistics answerworks

References

🔗 secunia.com 🔗 secunia.com 🔗 support.quickbooks.intuit.com 🔗 www.intuit.com 🔗 www.securityfocus.com