CVE-2010-3099

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2010-08-20 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-22

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in SmartSoft Ltd SmartFTP Client 4.0.1124.0, and possibly other versions before 4.0 Build 1133, allows remote FTP servers to overwrite arbitrary files via a "..\" (dot dot backslash) in a filename. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

Affected products

SmartFTP Client: through 4.0.1124.0

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/40899
http://www.htbridge.ch/advisory/directory_traversal_in_smartftp.html
http://www.smartftp.com/forums/index.php?/topic/16425-smartftp-client-40-change-log/
http://secunia.com/advisories/40899
http://www.htbridge.ch/advisory/directory_traversal_in_smartftp.html
http://www.smartftp.com/forums/index.php?/topic/16425-smartftp-client-40-change-log/

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