CVE-2007-5731

Status: ModifiedLow (3.5)—💥 Exploit

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.

CVSS

Version: 2.0
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N
Base score: 3.5

Exploitation probability (EPSS)

Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 7.13%
Percentile among all scored CVEs: 94
Score date: 10/8/2026

EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, FIRST) estimates how likely a vulnerability is to be exploited in the wild within 30 days. It complements CVSS (impact) and CISA KEV (confirmed exploitation).

💥 Public exploits

Exploit code or detection templates are publicly available. This is not the same as confirmed active exploitation (KEV), but it raises the risk: patch with priority.

Published on Exploit-DB · Jakarta Slide 2.1 RC1 - Remote File Disclosure (10/24/2007)

Affected technologies (1)

Apache — Jakarta Slide

CWEs

CWE-22

References

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