CVE-2007-5017

MEDIUM 5.0CVE-2007-5017 · Published 20/09/2007 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2007-5017 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 5.0) vulnerability affecting messenger (yahoo).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 2.5%, higher than 85.0% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
messenger yahoo	`= 8.1.0.421`	No fix yet

Description

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.

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Package

Affected versions

Patched versions

messenger

yahoo

= 8.1.0.421

No fix yet

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