CVE-2007-4061

Directory traversal vulnerability in a certain ActiveX control in Nessus Vulnerability Scanner 3.0.6 allows remote attackers to create or overwrite arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the argument to the saveNessusRC method, which writes text specified by the addsetConfig method, possibly related to the SCANCTRL.ScanCtrlCtrl.1 ActiveX control in scan.dll. NOTE: this can be leveraged for code execution by writing to a Startup folder.

CVSS v2.0

9.3 HIGHAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

EPSS

11.18% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 96th percentile

Published

2007-07-30

Updated

2024-08-07

ExploitDB entries (1)

• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/4237

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry

Related

• CVE-2007-4060
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