CVE-2010-3101 — Directory traversal vulnerability in FTPx Corp FTP Explorer 10.5.19.1 for Windows, and probably earlier versions, allows remote FTP servers to write arbitrary files via a "..\" (dot dot backslash) in a filename

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Directory traversal vulnerability in FTPx Corp FTP Explorer 10.5.19.1 for Windows, and probably earlier versions, allows remote FTP servers to write arbitrary files via a "..\" (dot dot backslash) in a filename

Published Aug 20, 2010

9.3

HIGH

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 1.52%

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in FTPx Corp FTP Explorer 10.5.19.1 for Windows, and probably earlier versions, allows remote FTP servers to write arbitrary files via a "..\" (dot dot backslash) in a filename.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

1.52% 0.01520

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

EPSS probability 0.01520

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 (11 key points)

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

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	1.52% (0.01520)	73.65th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	1.52% (0.01520)	71.21th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	0.18% (0.00180)	37.48th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.21% (0.00214)	60.33th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 15, 2024	0.20% (0.00196)	56.41th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Feb 8, 2024	0.17% (0.00171)	53.06th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.21% (0.00214)	57.61th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	0.89% (0.00885)	27.89th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Sep 10, 2022	0.89% (0.00885)	26.24th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	0.89% (0.00885)	24.24th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	0.89% (0.00885)	10.50th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-22

Path Traversal

References (2)

http://secunia.com/advisories/40901
third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory
http://www.htbridge.ch/advisory/directory_traversal_in_ftp_explorer.html
x_refsource_MISC

Link	Providers	Tags
http://secunia.com/advisories/40901		third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory
http://www.htbridge.ch/advisory/directory_traversal_in_ftp_explorer.html		x_refsource_MISC

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Aug 20, 2010

Updated Sep 17, 2024

Reserved Aug 20, 2010

Link CVE-2010-3101

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 16, 2026

Link CVE-2010-3101

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2010-3101