CVEvulnerability

CVE-2005-0243

5.0 MEDIUM Published 2005-02-17 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2005-02-17
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Description

Yahoo! Messenger 6.0.0.1750, and possibly other versions before 6.0.0.1921, does not properly display long filenames in file dialog boxes, which could allow remote attackers to trick users into downloading and executing programs via file names containing a large number of spaces and multiple file extensions.

Affected configurations

• yahoo messenger 5.5 • yahoo messenger 5.6 • yahoo messenger 5.6.0.1351 • yahoo messenger 6.0 • yahoo messenger 6.0.0.1750

Related

Referenced by CWE · observed example (1)

  • CWE-451 User Interface (UI) Misrepresentation of Critical Information weakness

References