CVE-2009-0244

HIGH

Directory traversal vulnerability in the OBEX FTP Service in the Microsoft Bluetooth stack in Windows Mobile 6 Professional, and probably Windows Mobile 5.0 for Pocket PC and 5.0 for Pocket PC Phone Edition, allows remote authenticated users to list arbitrary directories, and create or read arbitrary files, via a .. (dot dot) in a pathname. NOTE: this can be leveraged for code execution by writing to a Startup folder.

Published: Jan 21, 2009 Modified: Apr 23, 2026

CWE-22

CVSS Metrics

CVSSv3

Attack Vector: NETWORK Attack Complexity: LOW Privileges Required: LOW User Interaction: NONE Scope: UNCHANGED Confidentiality Impact: HIGH Integrity Impact: HIGH Availability Impact: HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected Products (6)

Vendor	Product	Version
microsoft	windows_mobile	5.0
microsoft	windows_mobile	5.0
microsoft	windows_mobile	5.0
microsoft	windows_mobile	6.0
microsoft	windows_mobile	6.0
microsoft	windows_mobile	6.0

GitHub Security Advisory GHSA-6gmh-pw6w-cww4

Directory traversal vulnerability in the OBEX FTP Service in the Microsoft Bluetooth stack in...

References (12)

http://secunia.com/advisories/33598 Broken Link
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4938 Exploit
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/500199/100/0/threaded Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/33359 Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
http://www.seguridadmobile.com/windows-mobile/windows-mobile-security/Microsoft-Bluetooth-Stack-Directory-Traversal.html Broken Link, Exploit
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/48124 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
http://secunia.com/advisories/33598 Broken Link
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4938 Exploit
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/500199/100/0/threaded Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/33359 Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
http://www.seguridadmobile.com/windows-mobile/windows-mobile-security/Microsoft-Bluetooth-Stack-Directory-Traversal.html Broken Link, Exploit
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/48124 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry

Risk Scores

CVSS Score 8.8 / 10

EPSS Score 17.36%

Top 5% most likely to be exploited

Threat Score 40.4 / 100

Data Sources

NVD EPSS GitHub