CVE-2007-1799

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.4 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2007-04-02 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in torrent.cpp in KTorrent before 2.1.3 only checks for the ".." string, which allows remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via modified ".." sequences in a torrent filename, as demonstrated by "../" sequences, due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2007-1384.

Affected products

Joris Guisson Ktorrent: 2.1.1, 2.1.2

References

http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=143637
http://secunia.com/advisories/24995
http://secunia.com/advisories/25097
http://secunia.com/advisories/26773
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200705-01.xml
http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1373
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:095
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_007_suse.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/23745
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-436-2
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=170303
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/33566

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