CVE-2007-5017: Yahoo Messenger

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 2.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Absolute path traversal vulnerability in a certain ActiveX control in the CYFT object in ft60.dll in Yahoo! Messenger 8.1.0.421 allows remote attackers to force a download, and create or overwrite arbitrary files via a full pathname in the second argument to the GetFile method.

Affected products

• Yahoo Messenger: version 8.1.0.421 only

Published 2007-09-20. Last modified 2026-06-16.