CVE-2007-4962: Winimage

High severity, CVSS 9.3. EPSS: 6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Directory traversal vulnerability in WinImage 8.10 and earlier allows user-assisted remote attackers to create or overwrite arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in a filename within a (1) .IMG or (2) .ISO file. NOTE: this can be leveraged for code execution by writing to a Startup folder.

Affected products

• Winimage Winimage: version 8.0 only; version 8.10 only

Published 2007-09-18. Last modified 2026-06-16.