Path Traversal in Core FTP

CVE-2008-2519

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.

Vulnerability class: Path Traversal (Directory Traversal)

EPSS: 0.023 (81.9th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

  • Core_ftp — versions 2.1
  • N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

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