CVE-2007-5017

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-22 Path Traversal

Publication date:

20/09/2007

Last modified:

09/04/2025

Description

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.

Impact

Vector 2.0

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 5.00 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): Physical
Availability (A): None

Base Score 2.0

5.00

Severity 2.0

MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:yahoo:messenger:8.1.0.421:::::::*

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

http://osvdb.org/38296
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25727
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018715=
http://www.shinnai.altervista.org/exploits/txt/TXT_KJDPaI2IlM5P9PP6N6dI.html
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/36694
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/4428
http://osvdb.org/38296
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25727
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018715=
http://www.shinnai.altervista.org/exploits/txt/TXT_KJDPaI2IlM5P9PP6N6dI.html
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/36694
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/4428