CVE-2017-5228

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Mar 2, 2017
Updated: Aug 5, 2024
Reserved: Jan 9, 2017

Description

All editions of Rapid7 Metasploit prior to version 4.13.0-2017020701 contain a directory traversal vulnerability in the Meterpreter stdapi Dir.download() function. By using a specially-crafted build of Meterpreter, it is possible to write to an arbitrary directory on the Metasploit console with the permissions of the running Metasploit instance.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
MetasploitRapid7	All versions prior to version 4.13.0-2017020701Affected

References

96954vdb-entry
https://community.rapid7.com/community/infosec/blog/2017/03/01/multiple-vulnerabilities-affecting-four-rapid7-products

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