CVE-2008-2702: Estsoft Alftp

High severity, CVSS 9.3. EPSS: 10.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Directory traversal vulnerability in the FTP client in ALTools ESTsoft ALFTP 4.1 beta 2 and 5.0 allows remote FTP servers to create or overwrite arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in a response to a LIST command, a related issue to CVE-2002-1345. NOTE: this can be leveraged for code execution by writing to a Startup folder.

Affected products

• Estsoft Alftp: version 4.1 only; version 5.0 only

Published 2008-06-13. Last modified 2026-06-16.