CVE-2007-0159

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.4 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2007-01-10 · updated 2026-06-16

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.

Affected products

Geoip: 1.4.0

References

http://arctic.org/~dean/patches/GeoIP-1.4.0-update-vulnerability.patch
http://osvdb.org/31618
http://secunia.com/advisories/23880
http://secunia.com/advisories/23906
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:004
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21959
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-412-1
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0117
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0118
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/31383
http://arctic.org/~dean/patches/GeoIP-1.4.0-update-vulnerability.patch
http://osvdb.org/31618

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