CVE-2007-3846

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2007-08-28 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-22

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in Subversion before 1.4.5, as used by TortoiseSVN before 1.4.5 and possibly other products, when run on Windows-based systems, allows remote authenticated users to overwrite and create arbitrary files via a ..\ (dot dot backslash) sequence in the filename, as stored in the file repository.

Affected products

Subversion: through 1.4.4
Tortoisesvn: through 1.4.4

References

http://crisp.cs.du.edu/?q=node/36
http://osvdb.org/40118
http://osvdb.org/40119
http://secunia.com/advisories/26625
http://secunia.com/advisories/26632
http://securitytracker.com/id?1018617
http://subversion.tigris.org/servlets/NewsItemView?newsItemID=1941
http://subversion.tigris.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=users&msgNo=69413
http://subversion.tigris.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=users&msgNo=69413
http://subversion.tigris.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=users&msgNo=69413
http://subversion.tigris.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=users&msgNo=69413
http://tortoisesvn.net/node/291

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