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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Published : 2007-07-30 17:30
Updated : 2017-09-29 01:29
NVD link : CVE-2007-4061
Mitre link : CVE-2007-4061
CVE.ORG link : CVE-2007-4061
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nessus
- vulnerability_scanner
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