CVE-2008-2519

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 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: yes
Published: 2008-06-03 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-22

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in Core FTP client 2.1 Build 1565 allows remote FTP servers to create or overwrite arbitrary files via .. (dot dot) sequences in responses to LIST commands, a related issue to CVE-2002-1345. NOTE: this can be leveraged for code execution by writing to a Startup folder.

Affected products

Core Ftp: 2.1-build_1565

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/30389
http://vuln.sg/coreftp211565-en.html
http://www.coreftp.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=6078
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29362
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1643/references
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42605
http://secunia.com/advisories/30389
http://vuln.sg/coreftp211565-en.html
http://www.coreftp.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=6078
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29362
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1643/references
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42605

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