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.

Affected products

Nessus, Nessus Activex Control, Nessus Vulnerability Scanner

Nessus Vulnerability Scanner

= 3.0.6

Fix

Available

CVSS 2.0

9.3 HIGH

EPSS

11.2% (96th percentile)

NVD status

Modified

Published

2007-07-30