CVE-2007-5017

Medium

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.

SeverityMedium
CVSS5.0
Exploit probability—
ProductYahoo Messenger
PublishedSep 20, 2007
First seenSep 20, 2007

How to fix

Sources list no fixed version or patch link for this vulnerability.

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
yahoo messenger8.1.0.421—

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