Vulnerability Report

CVE-2007-5017

Title: Yahoo Messenger Path Traversal / LFI

Arbitrary File Access

Proof Of Concept

PoC Available for CVE-2007-5017

CWE Category CWE-22

Published Date Sep 20, 2007

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Available

Score 5.0 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

2.55%

Vulnerability Summary

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.

Impacted Vendors

yahoo 1

relatedcode 1

Reference Links

http://osvdb.org/38296 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25727 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018715 http://www.shinnai.altervista.org/exploits/txt/TXT_KJDPaI2IlM5P9PP6N6dI.html https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/36694 https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/4428 http://osvdb.org/38296 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25727 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018715 http://www.shinnai.altervista.org/exploits/txt/TXT_KJDPaI2IlM5P9PP6N6dI.html https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/36694 https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/4428

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

5.0

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2007-5017 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

Exploit-DB https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/4428

View Code

June 16, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 09, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

September 20, 2007 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.