CVEvulnerability
CVE-2007-4061
9.3 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2007-07-30
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 9.3 HIGH — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Description
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 configurations
• nessus vulnerability scanner 3.0.6
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26243 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.nessus.org/news/ Patch
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25088 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2702 www.vupen.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/35641 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/4237 www.exploit-db.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26243 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.nessus.org/news/ Patch
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25088 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2702 www.vupen.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/35641 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/4237 www.exploit-db.com