CVE-2008-2889: Wise-FTP

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 2.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Directory traversal vulnerability in the FTP client in AceBIT WISE-FTP 4.1.0 and 5.5.8 allows remote FTP servers to create or overwrite arbitrary files via a ..\ (dot dot backslash) in a response to a LIST command, a related issue to CVE-2002-1345.

Affected products

• Wise-FTP Wise-FTP: version 4.1.0 only; version 5.5.8 only

Published 2008-06-27. Last modified 2026-06-16.