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CVE-2007-1904
Directory traversal vulnerability in AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) 5.9 and earlier, and ICQ 5.1 and probably earlier, allows user-assisted…
- 4.3MediumCVSS base score
- 3.9%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 9.7% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Directory traversal vulnerability in AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) 5.9 and earlier, and ICQ 5.1 and probably earlier, allows user-assisted remote attackers to write files to arbitrary locations via a .. (dot dot) in a filename in a file transfer operation.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
Published
- 17 years later
· 17 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 | Medium4.3 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 3.9% · top 9.7% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.3.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
9
- 1017890 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- aim-icq-filetransfer-directory-traversal(33538) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- ADV-2007-1307 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 1017891 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 20070409 AOL AIM and ICQ File Transfer Path-Traversal Vulnerability (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_IDEFENSEx_transferred
- 24803 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 23391 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 24747 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- ADV-2007-1306 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_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)
- EUVD EUVD-2007-1898 (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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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2007-1904)Record last updated .