CVE-2008-2519: Core FTP

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 2.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Directory traversal vulnerability in Core FTP client 2.1 Build 1565 allows remote FTP servers to create or overwrite arbitrary files via .. (dot dot) sequences in responses to LIST commands, a related issue to CVE-2002-1345. NOTE: this can be leveraged for code execution by writing to a Startup folder.

Affected products

• Core FTP Core FTP: version 2.1 only

Published 2008-06-03. Last modified 2026-06-16.