CVE-2009-0244: Microsoft Windows Mobile

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 30.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Directory traversal vulnerability in the OBEX FTP Service in the Microsoft Bluetooth stack in Windows Mobile 6 Professional, and probably Windows Mobile 5.0 for Pocket PC and 5.0 for Pocket PC Phone Edition, allows remote authenticated users to list arbitrary directories, and create or read arbitrary files, via a .. (dot dot) in a pathname. NOTE: this can be leveraged for code execution by writing to a Startup folder.

Affected products

• Microsoft Windows Mobile: version 5.0 only; version 6.0 only

Published 2009-01-21. Last modified 2026-06-16.