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CVE-2017-5229
published 2017-03-02

CVE-2017-5229: All editions of Rapid7 Metasploit prior to version 4.13.0-2017020701 contain a directory traversal vulnerability in the Meterpreter extapi…

PriorityP335high7.1CVSS 3.0
AVNACHPRNUIRSUCHIHAL
EPSS
1.22%
64.8th percentile
All editions of Rapid7 Metasploit prior to version 4.13.0-2017020701 contain a directory traversal vulnerability in the Meterpreter extapi Clipboard.parse_dump() function. By using a specially-crafted build of Meterpreter, it is possible to write to an arbitrary directory on the Metasploit console with the permissions of the running Metasploit instance.

Affected

2 ranges
VendorProductVersion rangeFixed in
rapid7metasploit<= 4.13.19
rapid7metasploit

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.07.1HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L
nvdv2.05.1MEDIUMAV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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