CVE-2017-5231
- 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 CommandDispatcher.cmd_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
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Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
MetasploitRapid7 |
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