CVE-2007-5731

Jakarta Slide vulnerability

CVSS

3.5

EPSS

7.1%

EPSS pct

94th

Exploited

No known

Absolute path traversal vulnerability in Apache Jakarta Slide 2.1 and earlier allows remote authenticated users to read arbitrary files via a WebDAV write request that specifies an entity with a SYSTEM tag, a related issue to CVE-2007-5461.

Affected vendor

Apache

Affected product

Jakarta Slide

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N

Weakness type (CWE)

CWE-22 — Path Traversal

Published

2007-10-30

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, medium attack complexity, requiring single-factor authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to confidentiality.

Its EPSS score of 7.1% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 94% of all scored CVEs.

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