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CVE-2009-0244

HIGH CVSS: 8.8 Published: 2009-01-21 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in the OBEX FTP Service in the Microsoft Bluetooth stack in Windows Mobile 6 Professional, and probably Windows Mobile 5.0 for Pocket PC and 5.0 for Pocket PC Phone Edition, allows remote authenticated users to list arbitrary directories, and create or read arbitrary files, via a .. (dot dot) in a pathname. NOTE: this can be leveraged for code execution by writing to a Startup folder.

Affected Platforms

Microsoft Windows Mobile

Weakness Type

CWE-22

References