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CVE-2008-1620

29
FAUCET Score

CVE-2008-1620 describes a directory traversal vulnerability in the 2X TFTP service (TFTPd.exe) within 2X ThinClientServer versions 5.0_sp1-r3497 and earlier. This flaw allows remote, unauthenticated attackers to read or overwrite arbitrary files on the server by including "..." (dot dot dot) sequences in filenames during TFTP operations. With a CVSS score of 7.5, this vulnerability is considered high severity, indicating a low attack complexity and the potential for complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The FAUCET Risk Score of 91/100 further emphasizes its critical nature. While not listed in the KEV catalog or experiencing active exploitation, public exploit code exists via ExploitDB (EDB-31562). Despite this, there is minimal community discussion or media coverage surrounding this older vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 3.2.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:2x:thinclientserver:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
<= 5.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:2x:thinclientserver:*:sp1_r3497:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

7.5HIGH

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

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
3.03%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
86.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-31562 · Mar 29, 2008
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0303 is in the 75th percentile among its peer group of 51,485 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, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

aluigi.altervista.org / adv/thindirtrav-adv.txt
Exploit
aluigi.org / testz/tftpx.zip
ExploitPatch
secunia.com / advisories/29590
Vendor Advisory
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/41528
securityfocus.com / archive/1/490324/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / bid/28504
vupen.com / english/advisories/2008/1040/references