CVE-2007-1799

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Summary

CVECVE-2007-1799
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2007-04-02 22:19:00 UTC
Updated2026-04-23 00:35:47 UTC
DescriptionDirectory 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.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 6.4 from [email protected]

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
Partial
Availability
Partial

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Joris Guisson Ktorrent 2.1.1 All All All
Application Joris Guisson Ktorrent 2.1.2 All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
SUSE Update for Multiple Packages - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Gentoo Linux Documentation -- Ktorrent: Multiple vulnerabilities af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 security.gentoo.org
Bug 143637 – The directory traversal fix is incomplete af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugs.kde.org
Debian update for ktorrent - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-1373-2 ktorrent af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.debian.org
USN-436-2: KTorrent vulnerability | Ubuntu af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.ubuntu.com
Security Announcement af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.novell.com
Gentoo update for ktorrent - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
KTorrent Remote Directory Traversal Variant Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
IBM X-Force Exchange af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
Gentoo Bug 170303 - net-p2p/ktorrent <2.1.3 : unspecified + directory traversal (CVE-2007-{138{4|5}|1799}) af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugs.gentoo.org
Advisories - Mandriva Linux af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.mandriva.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

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