01 Record
CVE-2007-5989
Unspecified vulnerability in the skype4com URI handler in Skype before 3.6 GOLD allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via "short string values" that result in heap corruption.
UnratedPUBLISHEDCNA: mitre
CNA base scoreUnratedNo CNA CVSS vector
02 Description
Unspecified vulnerability in the skype4com URI handler in Skype before 3.6 GOLD allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via "short string values" that result in heap corruption.
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 4.42% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 91.0% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- The NVD has published no score for this record
- NVD CVSS vector
- No NVD score to derive
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-16.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2007-12-13 21:00Z18 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-07 15:47Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2007-11-14
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-119Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferClass
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 242f72a1847e602be2ad7532d1a9546dba42abbcb6907e8707b6b5c5498e1143
05 Affected products
VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
06 References
- www.vupen.comADV-2007-4110http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/4110
- securitytracker.com1019056http://securitytracker.com/id?1019056
- secunia.com27934http://secunia.com/advisories/27934
- securityreason.com3440http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3440
- www.securityfocus.com20071206 ZDI-07-070: Skype skype4com URI Handler Remote Heap Corruption Vulnerabilityhttp://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/484703/100/0/threaded
- osvdb.org39170http://osvdb.org/39170
- www.securityfocus.com26748http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26748
- www.zerodayinitiative.comhttp://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-07-070.html