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CVE-2007-5017

MEDIUM CVSS: 5.0 Published: 2007-09-20 Modified: 2026-06-16

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.

Affected Platforms

Yahoo Messenger

Weakness Type

CWE-22

References