Check Point Advisories

Microsoft CAPICOM Certificates ActiveX Control Code Execution (MS07-028; CVE-2007-0940)

Check Point Reference: CPAI-2007-064
Date Published: 9 May 2007
Severity: Critical
Last Updated: Wednesday 09 May, 2007
Source:
Industry Reference:CVE-2007-0940
Protection Provided by:

Security Gateway
R81, R80, R77, R75, R71, R70, R65
Who is Vulnerable?
Vulnerability Description CAPICOM Certificates (CAPICOM.dll) is an ActiveX control that provides a method for encrypting data based on secure underlying Windows CryptoAPI functionality.A remote code execution vulnerability has been reported in Cryptographic API Component Object Model (CAPICOM) Certificates.A remote attacker could exploit this issue by convincing a user to visit a specially crafted HTML documents or open a malicious web page.Successful exploitation could result in remote code execution on the target system once the malicious page is loaded.

Protection Overview

This protection will detect and block CAPICOM ActiveX objects that contain malformed arguments.

In order for the protection to be activated, update your Security Gateway product to the latest IPS update. For information on how to update IPS, go to SBP-2006-05, click on Protection tab and select the version of your choice.

Security Gateway R80 / R77 / R75 / R71 / R70 / R65

  1. In the IPS tab, click Protections and find the Microsoft CAPICOM Certificates ActiveX Control Code Execution (MS07-028) protection using the Search tool and Edit the protection's settings.
  2. Install policy on all Security Gateways.

This protection's log will contain the following information:

Attack Name:  Web Client Enforcement Violation.
Attack Information:  Microsoft CAPICOM certificates ActiveX control code execution (MS07-028)

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