CVE-2007-5017 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

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.

Published: 2007-09-20

Score: 5.0 Medium

EPSS: 7.0% Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Vendor Product Default status Versions

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affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:yahoo:messenger:8.1.0.421:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2007-4998	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.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact None

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.07015.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
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

History

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Subscriptions

Yahoo Messenger

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2007-09-20T21:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-07T15:17:28.168Z

Reserved: 2007-09-20T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2007-5017

Vulnrichment

No data.

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2007-09-20T21:17:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-23T00:35:47.467

Link: CVE-2007-5017

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

CWE-22

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