CVE-2008-4583: Chilkat Software FTP

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 5.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Insecure method vulnerability in the Chilkat FTP 2.0 ActiveX component (ChilkatCert.dll) allows remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a full pathname in the SavePkcs8File method.

Affected products

• Chilkat Software FTP: version 2.0 only

Published 2008-10-15. Last modified 2026-06-16.