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CVE-2007-5017

Absolute path traversal vulnerability in a certain ActiveX control in the CYFT object in ft60.dll in Yahoo! Messenger 8.1.0.421 allows remote attackers to force a download, and create or overwrite arbitrary files via a full pathname in the second argument to the GetFile method.

Published

2007-09-20T21:17:00.000

Last Modified

2025-04-09T00:30:58.490

Status

Deferred

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv2: 5.0 (MEDIUM)

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Access Vector: NETWORK
Access Complexity: LOW
Authentication: NONE
Confidentiality Impact: NONE
Integrity Impact: PARTIAL
Availability Impact: NONE

Exploitability Score

10.0

Impact Score

2.9

Weaknesses

Type: Primary
CWE-22

Affected Vendors & Products

Type	Vendor	Product	Version/Range	Vulnerable?
Application	yahoo	messenger	8.1.0.421	Yes

References

http://osvdb.org/38296 ([email protected])
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25727 Exploit ([email protected])
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018715 ([email protected])
http://www.shinnai.altervista.org/exploits/txt/TXT_KJDPaI2IlM5P9PP6N6dI.html ([email protected])
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/36694 ([email protected])
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/4428 ([email protected])
http://osvdb.org/38296 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25727 Exploit (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018715 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.shinnai.altervista.org/exploits/txt/TXT_KJDPaI2IlM5P9PP6N6dI.html (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/36694 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/4428 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)