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.

🔗 References (12)

• cve@mitrehttp://secunia.com/advisories/26243
• cve@mitrehttp://www.nessus.org/news/
• cve@mitrehttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25088
• cve@mitrehttp://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2702
• cve@mitrehttps://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/35641
• cve@mitrehttps://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/4237
• af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://secunia.com/advisories/26243
• af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.nessus.org/news/
• af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25088
• af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2702
• af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/35641
• af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/4237