CVE-2008-6959: Chilkatsoft Chilkat Socket

High severity, CVSS 9.3. EPSS: 5.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Insecure method vulnerability in the Chilkat Socket ActiveX control (ChilkatSocket.ChilkatSocket.1) in ChilkatSocket.dll 2.3.1.1 allows remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via the SaveLastError method. NOTE: this might be related to CVE-2008-1647.

Affected products

• Chilkatsoft Chilkat Socket: any version

Published 2009-08-12. Last modified 2026-06-16.