CVE-2008-2779 — 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

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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

Published Jun 19, 2008

9.3

HIGH

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 2.62%

Description

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

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

2.62% 0.02624

Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.

EPSS probability 0.02624

Score over time

2022–2026

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Percentile over time

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Table of values (10 key points)

Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	2.62% (0.02624)	84.94th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	2.62% (0.02624)	83.44th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	0.23% (0.00230)	43.79th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.19% (0.00195)	58.34th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Jan 24, 2024	0.19% (0.00195)	57.44th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.19% (0.00195)	55.43th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	1.82% (0.01818)	77.09th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 23, 2023	1.82% (0.01818)	77.05th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	1.82% (0.01818)	75.02th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	1.82% (0.01818)	54.37th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-22

Path Traversal

References (5)

http://secunia.com/advisories/29760
third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory
http://vuln.sg/cuteftp820-en.html
x_refsource_MISCExploit
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020113
vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1653/references
vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42633
vdb-entryx_refsource_XF

Link	Providers	Tags
http://secunia.com/advisories/29760		third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory
http://vuln.sg/cuteftp820-en.html		x_refsource_MISCExploit
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020113		vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1653/references		vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42633		vdb-entryx_refsource_XF

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Jun 19, 2008

Updated Aug 7, 2024

Reserved Jun 19, 2008

Link CVE-2008-2779

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 16, 2026

Link CVE-2008-2779

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2008-2779