CVEvulnerability

CVE-2017-5229

7.1 HIGH Published 2017-03-02 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2017-03-02
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
7.1 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.1 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-22

Description

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 configurations

• rapid7 metasploit (<= 4.13.19)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory weakness

References