Path Traversal in Yahoo Messenger

CVE-2007-5017

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.

Vulnerability class: Path Traversal (Directory Traversal)

EPSS: 0.025 (83.4th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

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