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critical 9.3

CVE-2008-2702 in the critical feed json

Directory traversal vulnerability in the FTP client in ALTools ESTsoft ALFTP 4.1 beta 2 and 5.0 allows remote FTP servers to create or over…

published 2008-06-13 18 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2008-2696

cvss
9.3
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
10.7%
EPSS 10.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 95%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

Directory traversal vulnerability in the FTP client in ALTools ESTsoft ALFTP 4.1 beta 2 and 5.0 allows remote FTP servers to create or overwrite arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in a response to a LIST command, a related issue to CVE-2002-1345. NOTE: this can be leveraged for code execution by writing to a Startup folder.

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-31887)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

10.70% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 95% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-31887 ALFTP FTP Client 4.1/5.0 - 'LIST' Directory Traversal remote, 2008-06-06
  • securityfocus.com http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29585 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified
  • vuln.sg http://vuln.sg/alftp41b2-en.html referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 9.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/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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