FKIE_CVE-2007-5017
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2007-09-20 21:17 - Updated: 2026-06-16 22:45
Severity
Summary
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.
References
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