Vulnerability Report

CVE-2008-0946

Title: Ipswitch Instant Messaging Path Traversal / LFI

Path Traversal / LFI

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2008-0946.

CWE Category CWE-22

Published Date Feb 25, 2008

Modified Date Apr 09, 2025

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 4.9 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.05%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2008-0946: Directory traversal vulnerability in the IM Server (aka IMserve or IMserver) in Ipswitch Instant Messaging (IM) 2.0.8.1 and earlier allows remote authenticated users to create arbitrary empty files via a .. (dot dot) in the recipient field.

Impacted Vendors

ipswitch 2

Reference Links

http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/ipsimene-adv.txt http://aluigi.org/poc/ipsimene.zip http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3697 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/487748/100/200/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27677 http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/ipsimene-adv.txt http://aluigi.org/poc/ipsimene.zip http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3697 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/487748/100/200/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27677

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

4.9

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2008-0946 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

April 09, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

February 25, 2008 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:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.