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CVE-2007-4061in critical feed1 exploit

Directory traversal vulnerability in a certain ActiveX control in Nessus Vulnerability Scanner 3.0.6 allows remote attackers to create or o…

Published 19 y ago · modified 4 mo ago · JSON

CVSS
9.3
v2.0 · NVD
CISA KEV
No
not known exploited
EPSS
11.2%
percentile 96%
Public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

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.

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

11.18% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 96% of all scored CVEs.

Exploits and detections

  • EDB-4237 Nessus Vulnerability Scanner 3.0.6 - ActiveX Command Execution · remote · 2007-07-27

CVSS scores

Assigned byVersionScoreVector
NVD2.09.3AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

References

  • nessus.org /news/ · x_refsource_MISC, x_transferred
  • exploit-db.com /exploits/4237 · exploit, x_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB, x_transferred
  • exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com /vulnerabilities/35641 · vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF, x_transferred
  • secunia.com /advisories/26243 · third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA, x_transferred
  • securityfocus.com /bid/25088 · vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID, x_transferred
  • vupen.com /english/advisories/2007/2702 · vdb-entry, x_refsource_VUPEN, x_transferred

Sources

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