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CVE-2007-5017

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2007-09-20 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-22

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.

Affected products

• yahoo Messenger: 8.1.0.421

References

• http://osvdb.org/38296
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25727
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018715
• http://www.shinnai.altervista.org/exploits/txt/TXT_KJDPaI2IlM5P9PP6N6dI.html
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/36694
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/4428
• http://osvdb.org/38296
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25727
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018715
• http://www.shinnai.altervista.org/exploits/txt/TXT_KJDPaI2IlM5P9PP6N6dI.html
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/36694
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/4428

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