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high 8.8

CVE-2009-0244 in the critical feed json

Directory traversal vulnerability in the OBEX FTP Service in the Microsoft Bluetooth stack in Windows Mobile 6 Professional, and probably W…

published 2009-01-21 17 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2009-0252

cvss
8.8
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
30.3%
EPSS 30.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 98%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Directory traversal vulnerability in the OBEX FTP Service in the Microsoft Bluetooth stack in Windows Mobile 6 Professional, and probably Windows Mobile 5.0 for Pocket PC and 5.0 for Pocket PC Phone Edition, allows remote authenticated users to list arbitrary directories, and create or read arbitrary files, via a .. (dot dot) in a pathname. NOTE: this can be leveraged for code execution by writing to a Startup folder.

Exploit prediction

30.25% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 98% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • seguridadmobile.com http://www.seguridadmobile.com/windows-mobile/windows-mobile-security/Microsoft-Bluetooth-Stack-Directory-Traversal.html referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified
  • securityreason.com http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4938 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 8.5 AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory

References

Sources

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