Security Advisory

CVE-2007-4061

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2007-07-30 17:00:00

Last updated 2024-08-07 14:37:06

Assigner mitre

CVSS score not scored

State PUBLISHED

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.

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