CVE-2008-2889

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2008-06-27 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-22

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in the FTP client in AceBIT WISE-FTP 4.1.0 and 5.5.8 allows remote FTP servers to create or overwrite arbitrary files via a ..\ (dot dot backslash) in a response to a LIST command, a related issue to CVE-2002-1345.

Affected products

Wise-Ftp: 4.1.0, 5.5.8

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/30663
http://secunia.com/advisories/30788
http://vuln.sg/wiseftp558-en.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29844
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1898/references
http://www.wise-ftp.com/news/index.htm
http://secunia.com/advisories/30663
http://secunia.com/advisories/30788
http://vuln.sg/wiseftp558-en.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29844
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1898/references
http://www.wise-ftp.com/news/index.htm

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