CVE-2007-4061
published 2007-07-30CVE-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…
PriorityP343critical9.3CVSS 2.0
AVNACMAuNCCICAC
EXPLOIT
EPSS
11.18%
95.4th percentile
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.
Affected
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| Vendor | Product | Version range | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| nessus | vulnerability_scanner | — | — |
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http://secunia.com/advisories/26243http://www.nessus.org/news/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25088http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2702https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/35641https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/4237http://secunia.com/advisories/26243http://www.nessus.org/news/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25088http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2702https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/35641https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/4237
2007-07-30
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