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Status published
Medium
CVE-2007-5017
Absolute path traversal vulnerability in a certain ActiveX control in...
Vulnerability 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.
Impact Analysis
Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.
Remediation
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Affected Vendor
yahoo
View all reports →Affected Software
messenger
Vulnerable Versions:
8.1.0.421
Timeline
Official Publish:
September 20th, 2007
Last Modified:
August 7th, 2024
Added to House:
July 18th, 2026
CVSS Vectors
Weaknesses (CWE)
No CWE data available
MITRE ATT&CK TTPs
No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.