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CVE-2007-5685

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2007-5685 describes a directory traversal vulnerability in the safe_path function of shttp versions prior to 0.0.5, allowing remote attackers to read arbitrary files. This flaw, affecting serverkit shttp, carries a CVSS score of 5.0 (Medium) with a network attack vector, low complexity, and potential for partial confidentiality impact. While not listed on CISA's KEV catalog, public exploit code exists on ExploitDB, though there is minimal community discussion or media coverage surrounding this decade-old vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 0.0.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:serverkit:shttp:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
3.48%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
87.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-30711 · Oct 25, 2007
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0348 is in the 84th percentile among its peer group of 23,690 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

osvdb.org / 43607
serverkit.org / modules/contrib/shttp/shttp-0.0.5.tar.gz
Patch
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/37455
digineo.co.uk / shttp_directory_traversal
Patch
securityfocus.com / archive/1/482797/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / bid/26212
Exploit