Vulnerability Details 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.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.106
EPSS Ranking 92.9%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v2 Score 9.3
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26243
- http://www.nessus.org/news/
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25088
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2702
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/35641
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/4237
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26243
- http://www.nessus.org/news/
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25088
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2702
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/35641
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/4237
Products affected by CVE-2007-4061
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cpe:2.3:a:nessus:vulnerability_scanner:3.0.6