CyberRota Analysis
This is a medium severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 6.4. It may be remotely exploitable.
CVE
CVE-2007-1799
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS
6.4
EPSS
2.27%
Original NVD Description
Directory traversal vulnerability in torrent.cpp in KTorrent before 2.1.3 only checks for the ".." string, which allows remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via modified ".." sequences in a torrent filename, as demonstrated by "../" sequences, due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2007-1384.