CVE-2007-4061 in Vulnerability Scannerinfo

Summary

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.

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Reservation

07/30/2007

Disclosure

07/30/2007

Entries

1

CPE

ready

CWE

CWE-22

Exploit

Download

CVSS

9.8

EPSS

0.10996

CTI

0.00

Sources

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