CVE Vulnerability

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.

9.3 /10

CVSS v2.0 :

V3 Legend

Vector :

Exploitability : 8.6 / Impact : 10

Attack Vector

Attack Complexity

Privileges Required

User Interaction

Confidentiality Impact COMPLETE

Integrity Impact COMPLETE

Availability Impact COMPLETE

Scope

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
Configurations

Configuration 1

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

Published : 2007-07-30 05:30

Updated : 2017-09-29 01:29

NVD link : CVE-2007-4061

Mitre link : CVE-2007-4061

Products Affected
No products.
CWE
NVD-CWE-Other