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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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2007-07-30T17:00:00

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

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

Link: CVE-2007-4061

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

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

Modified: 2017-09-29T01:29:12.627

Link: CVE-2007-4061

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