01 Record
CVE-2008-0946
Directory traversal vulnerability in the IM Server (aka IMserve or IMserver) in Ipswitch Instant Messaging (IM) 2.0.8.1 and earlier allows remote authenticated users to create arbitrary empty files
UnratedPUBLISHEDCNA: mitre
CNA base scoreUnratedNo CNA CVSS vector
02 Description
Directory traversal vulnerability in the IM Server (aka IMserve or IMserver) in Ipswitch Instant Messaging (IM) 2.0.8.1 and earlier allows remote authenticated users to create arbitrary empty files
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 3.54% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 88.7% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- The NVD has published no score for this record
- NVD CVSS vector
- No NVD score to derive
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-16.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2008-02-25 21:00Z18 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-07 08:01Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2008-02-25
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-22Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')Base
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 9cff3941d6c768a65d006194807d356b0f8935658984b4a99ae1fbdd2c9ea940
05 Affected products
06 References
- aluigi.altervista.orghttp://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/ipsimene-adv.txt
- www.securityfocus.com20080207 Multiple vulnerabilities in Ipswitch Instant Messaging 2.0.8.1http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/487748/100/200/threaded
- www.securityfocus.com27677http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27677
- securityreason.com3697http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3697
- aluigi.orghttp://aluigi.org/poc/ipsimene.zip