Vulnerability in Nessus Vulnerability Scanner
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.
EPSS: 0.112 (95.5th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Nessus Vulnerability_scanner — versions 3.0.6
- N/a — versions n/a
References
- cve@mitre.org (Patch, x_refsource_MISC)
- cve@mitre.org (exploit, x_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB)
- cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF)
- cve@mitre.org (Patch, x_refsource_SECUNIA, Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)
- cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_VUPEN)