CVE-2007-4061 - Directory traversal vulnerability in a certain ActiveX control in Nessus Vulnerability Scanner 3.0.6

CVE-2007-4061

Summary

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

Vulnerable Configurations

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

CVSS

Base:	9.3 (as of 29-09-2017 - 01:29)
Impact:
Exploitability:

CWE

NVD-CWE-Other

CAPEC

Access

Vector	Complexity	Authentication
NETWORK	MEDIUM	NONE

Impact

Confidentiality	Integrity	Availability
COMPLETE	COMPLETE	COMPLETE

cvss-vector via4

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

refmap via4

bid	25088
exploit-db	4237
misc	http://www.nessus.org/news/
secunia	26243
vupen	ADV-2007-2702
xf	nessus-scanctrl-file-overwrite(35641)

Last major update

29-09-2017 - 01:29

Published

30-07-2007 - 17:30

Last modified

29-09-2017 - 01:29