CVE-2007-5731
Absolute path traversal vulnerability in Apache Jakarta Slide 2.1 and earlier allows remote authenticated users to read arbitrary files…
- 3.5LowCVSS base score
- 7.1%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 5.7% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 1Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Absolute path traversal vulnerability in Apache Jakarta Slide 2.1 and earlier allows remote authenticated users to read arbitrary files via a WebDAV write request that specifies an entity with a SYSTEM tag, a related issue to CVE-2007-5461.
Public exploit
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Exploit-DB1 entry
- Jakarta Slide 2.1 RC1 - Remote File Disclosure (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 4567remote, multiplepublished 24 Oct 2007Verified
References tagged exploit1 reference
- 4567 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
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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 | Low3.5 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 7.1% · top 5.7% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Low 3.5.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
5
- ADV-2007-3699 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/jakarta/slide/trunk/src/webdav/server/org/apache/slide/webdav/method/LockMethod.java?view=log&sortby=date&pathrev=590976 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 38673 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- 4567 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- 27467 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_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-2007-5702 (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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