Vulnerability CVE-2007-5017
Published: 2007-09-20   Modified: 2012-02-12

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.

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
5/10
2.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
Partial
None
Affected software
Yahoo -> Messenger 

 References:
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
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