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CVE-2007-4061

high · 9.3

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.

9.3
CVSS
11.2%
EPSS (exploit prob.)
96th
EPSS percentile
2007-07-30
Published

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
nessusvulnerability_scanner3.0.6

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References

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