CVEvulnerability

CVE-2007-1799

6.4 MEDIUM Published 2007-04-02 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2007-04-02
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.4 MEDIUM — AV: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.

Affected configurations

• joris guisson ktorrent 2.1.1 • joris guisson ktorrent 2.1.2

References