CVE-2007-4061
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Jul 30, 2007
- Updated
- Aug 7, 2024
- Reserved
- Jul 30, 2007
Description
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.
Scores
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Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
n/an/a |
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References
- http://www.nessus.org/news/
- 4237exploit
- nessus-scanctrl-file-overwrite(35641)vdb-entry
- 26243third-party-advisory
- 25088vdb-entry
- ADV-2007-2702vdb-entry
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