cve/2007/CVE-2007-5017.md

### [CVE-2007-5017](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-5017)
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### Description

Absolute path traversal vulnerability in a certain ActiveX control in the CYFT object in ft60.dll in Yahoo! Messenger 8.1.0.421 allows remote attackers to force a download, and create or overwrite arbitrary files via a full pathname in the second argument to the GetFile method.

### POC

#### Reference
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/4428

#### Github
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