CVE-2008-2779

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2008-06-19 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-22

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in GlobalSCAPE CuteFTP Home 8.2.0 Build 02.26.2008.4 and CuteFTP Pro 8.2.0 Build 04.01.2008.1 allows remote FTP servers to create or overwrite arbitrary files via ..\ (dot dot backslash) 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

Global Scape CuteFTP: 8.2.0

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/29760
http://vuln.sg/cuteftp820-en.html
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020113
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1653/references
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42633
http://secunia.com/advisories/29760
http://vuln.sg/cuteftp820-en.html
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020113
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1653/references
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42633

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