Description
Absolute path traversal vulnerability in a certain ActiveX control in the CYFT object in ft60.dll in Yahoo! Messenger 8.1.0.421 allows remote attackers to force a download, and create or overwrite arbitrary files via a full pathname in the second argument to the GetFile method.
Public exploits
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Exploit-DB 1
- Yahoo! Messenger 8.1.0.421 - CYFT Object Arbitrary File Download EDB-4428 · remote · Sep 19, 2007 · verified
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References
- http://www.shinnai.altervista.org/exploits/txt/TXT_KJDPaI2IlM5P9PP6N6dI.html
- 4428 exploit
- yahoo-messenger-ft60-code-execution(36694) vdb-entry
- 38296 vdb-entry
- 25727 vdb-entry
- 1018715 vdb-entry