VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2007-1799

CVSS score6.4 MEDIUM
EPSS probability2.27%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2007-04-02
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in torrent.cpp in KTorrent before 2.1.3 only checks for the ".." string, which allows remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via modified ".." sequences in a torrent filename, as demonstrated by "../" sequences, due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2007-1384.

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