CVE-2007-0159
Directory traversal vulnerability in the GeoIP_update_database_general function in libGeoIP/GeoIPUpdate.c in GeoIP 1.4.0 allows remote…
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- mitre
Description
Directory traversal vulnerability in the GeoIP_update_database_general function in libGeoIP/GeoIPUpdate.c in GeoIP 1.4.0 allows remote malicious update servers (possibly only update.maxmind.com) to overwrite arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the database filename, which is returned by a request to app/update_getfilename.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 1 day later
· 1 day later
Published
- 18 years later
· 18 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium6.4 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.1% · top 18% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.4.
Weakness
- n/a
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (10)
- ADV-2007-0117 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- geoip-geoipupdate-directory-traversal(31383) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 21959 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 23880 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- ADV-2007-0118 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 23906 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- http://arctic.org/~dean/patches/GeoIP-1.4.0-update-vulnerability.patch (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 31618 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- USN-412-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- MDKSA-2007:004 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVAx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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