CVE-2007-4756

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2007-09-08 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-22

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in the FTP client in Total Commander before 7.02 allows remote FTP servers to create or overwrite arbitrary files via "..\" (dot dot backslash) sequences in a filename. NOTE: the "..\" are not displayed when the user lists files. NOTE: this can be leveraged for code execution by writing to a Startup folder.

Affected products

Ghisler Total Commander: through 7.01

References

http://blog.hispasec.com/lab/advisories/adv_TotalCommander_7_01_Remote_Traversal.txt
http://osvdb.org/39838
http://secunia.com/advisories/26734
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3106
http://www.ghisler.com/whatsnew.htm
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/478720/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25581
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018662
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3102
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/36486
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/36487
http://blog.hispasec.com/lab/advisories/adv_TotalCommander_7_01_Remote_Traversal.txt

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