Description
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.
Published: 2007-07-30
Score: 9.3 Critical
EPSS: 11.0% Moderate
KEV: No
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Nessus Vulnerability Scanner
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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T14:37:06.283Z

Reserved: 2007-07-30T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2007-4061

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Status : Modified

Published: 2007-07-30T17:30:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-23T00:35:47.467

Link: CVE-2007-4061

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