CVE-2007-1564

Exp

The FTP protocol implementation in Konqueror 3.5.5 allows remote servers to force the client to connect to other servers, perform a proxied port scan, or obtain sensitive information by specifying an alternate server address in an FTP PASV response.

Published: 2007-03-21 Last update: 2026-06-16 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2007-1564 is rated High Exploit Risk (68.2/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 3.78%). Core evidence: 1 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). Mandatory action: Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

Risk is dynamic; we continuously reassess and refresh what is shown on this page as upstream context changes.

Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2007-1564

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
29770 exploit_db edb 2007-03-21 Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2007-1564

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-06-15 9.66% 3.78% -5.88%
2 2026-02-21 9.06% 9.66% +0.60%
3 2025-11-07 9.06%

Full EPSS history (17 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2007-1564

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
6.8 2.0 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
Access complexity (AC:M)
Exploitation needs some favorable conditions, but not exceptional ones.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:P)
Partial confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:P)
Partial integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:P)
Partial availability impact.
8.6 6.4 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2007-1564

OS Trackers for CVE-2007-1564

vendor priority summary link
redhat low https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2007-1564
ubuntu medium CVE-2007-1564 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (kdelibs), 4 status rows across 4 suites (dapper, edgy, feisty, upstream): released 3, needs-triage 1. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2007-1564

Vendor comments (NVD) for CVE-2007-1564

  • Red Hat (2007-03-23T00:00:00)

    Red Hat is aware of this issue and is tracking it via the following bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=233592 The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this issue as having low security impact, a future update may address this flaw. More information regarding issue severity can be found here: http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2007-1564

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
kde konqueror 3.5.5 cpe:2.3:a:kde:konqueror:3.5.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2007-1564

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