CVE-2008-2779: Globalscape Cuteftp

High severity, CVSS 9.3. EPSS: 2.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Directory traversal vulnerability in GlobalSCAPE CuteFTP Home 8.2.0 Build 02.26.2008.4 and CuteFTP Pro 8.2.0 Build 04.01.2008.1 allows remote FTP servers to create or overwrite arbitrary files via ..\ (dot dot backslash) 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

• Globalscape Cuteftp: version 8.2.0 only

Published 2008-06-19. Last modified 2026-06-16.