CVE-2007-0159: Geoip

Medium severity, CVSS 6.4. EPSS: 2.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Geoip Geoip: version 1.4.0 only

Published 2007-01-10. Last modified 2026-06-16.