{"id":"CVE-2007-1799","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2007-1799","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T17:30:56.223Z","title":"Directory traversal vulnerability in torrent.cpp in KTorrent before 2.1.3 only checks for the \"..\" string, which allows remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via modified \"..\" sequences in a torrent filename, as demonstrated by \"../\" sequences,…","description":"Directory traversal vulnerability in torrent.cpp in KTorrent before 2.1.3 only checks for the \"..\" string, which allows remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via modified \"..\" sequences in a torrent filename, as demonstrated by \"../\" sequences, due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2007-1384.","published":"2007-04-02T22:19:00.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-16T22:38:19.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"2.0","score":6.4,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P"},"cwe":[],"affected":["joris guisson/ktorrent"],"epss":{"score":0.02269,"percentile":0.82926,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (2.27%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=143637","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://secunia.com/advisories/24995","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://secunia.com/advisories/25097","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://secunia.com/advisories/26773","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200705-01.xml","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1373","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:095","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_007_suse.html","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/23745","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-436-2","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=170303","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/33566","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=143637","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://secunia.com/advisories/24995","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://secunia.com/advisories/25097","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://secunia.com/advisories/26773","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200705-01.xml","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1373","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:095","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_007_suse.html","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/23745","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-436-2","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=170303","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/33566","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-1799","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}