VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE
CVE-2007-0159
CVSS score6.4 MEDIUM
EPSS probability2.10%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2007-01-10
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
Description
Directory traversal vulnerability in the GeoIP_update_database_general function in libGeoIP/GeoIPUpdate.c in GeoIP 1.4.0 allows remote malicious update servers (possibly only update.maxmind.com) to overwrite arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the database filename, which is returned by a request to app/update_getfilename.