CVE-2007-1540: Ledgersmb

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 4.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Directory traversal vulnerability in am.pl in (1) SQL-Ledger 2.6.27 and earlier, and (2) LedgerSMB before 1.2.0, allows remote attackers to run arbitrary executables and bypass authentication via a .. (dot dot) sequence and trailing NULL (%00) in the login parameter. NOTE: this issue was reportedly addressed in SQL-Ledger 2.6.27, however third-party researchers claim that the file is still executed even though an error is generated.

Affected products

• Ledgersmb Ledgersmb: up to and including 1.1.8
• SQL-Ledger SQL-Ledger: up to and including 2.6.27

Published 2007-03-20. Last modified 2026-06-16.