CVE-2007-0159

Published Jan 10, 2007

Last updated 7 years ago

Overview

Description: Directory traversal vulnerability in the GeoIP_update_database_general function in libGeoIP/GeoIPUpdate.c in GeoIP 1.4.0 allows remote malicious update servers (possibly only update.maxmind.com) to overwrite arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the database filename, which is returned by a request to app/update_getfilename.
Source: cve@mitre.org
NVD status: Modified

Hype score: Not currently trending

Risk scores

CVSS 2.0

Type: Primary
Base score: 6.4
Impact score: 4.9
Exploitability score: 10
Vector string: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov: NVD-CWE-Other

Configurations

[
  {
    "nodes": [
      {
        "negate": false,
        "cpeMatch": [
          {
            "criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:geoip:geoip:1.4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "vulnerable": true,
            "matchCriteriaId": "91B9A4F5-841D-4ADF-AAB7-F7A9D75A38AE"
          }
        ],
        "operator": "OR"
      }
    ]
  }
]

References