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.

CVSS v2.0 9.3 HIGH

9.3^/10

CVSS v2.0 : HIGH

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

Exploitability : 8.6 / Impact : 10.0

Access Vector NETWORK

Access Complexity MEDIUM

Authentication NONE

Confidentiality Impact COMPLETE

Integrity Impact COMPLETE

Availability Impact COMPLETE

References

Link	Resource
http://www.nessus.org/news/	Patch
http://secunia.com/advisories/26243	Patch Vendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25088
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2702
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/35641
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/4237

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Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

cpe:2.3:a:nessus:vulnerability_scanner:3.0.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Information

Published : 2007-07-30 10:30

Updated : 2017-09-28 18:29

NVD link : CVE-2007-4061

Mitre link : CVE-2007-4061

JSON object : View

CWE

NVD-CWE-Other

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Products Affected

nessus

vulnerability_scanner

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