CVE-2008-1933
Absolute path traversal vulnerability in a certain ActiveX control in Zune allows user-assisted remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary…
- 4.3MediumCVSS base score
- 13.9%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 3.4% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 1Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Absolute path traversal vulnerability in a certain ActiveX control in Zune allows user-assisted remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via the SaveToFile method. NOTE: the victim must explicitly allow the code to run.
Public exploit
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Exploit-DB1 entry
- Zune Software - ActiveX Arbitrary File Overwrite (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 5489remote, windowspublished 23 Apr 2008Verified
References tagged exploit1 reference
- 5489 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
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Published
- 16 years later
· 16 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:N/I:P/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 13.9% · top 3.4% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
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
3
- 20080423 Zune software - arbitrary file overwrite (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 5489 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- zune-activex-file-overwrite(42028) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_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-2008-1933 (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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