CVE-2007-5017

Published Sep 20, 2007

Last updated 7 years ago

Overview

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.
Source: cve@mitre.org
NVD status: Modified

Risk scores

CVSS 2.0

Type: Primary
Base score: 5
Impact score: 2.9
Exploitability score: 10
Vector string: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov: CWE-22

Hype score: Not currently trending

Configurations

[
  {
    "nodes": [
      {
        "negate": false,
        "cpeMatch": [
          {
            "criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:yahoo:messenger:8.1.0.421:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "vulnerable": true,
            "matchCriteriaId": "661E07A2-FB77-4411-95B3-BD0ED72DC6B3"
          }
        ],
        "operator": "OR"
      }
    ]
  }
]

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