All editions of Rapid7 Metasploit prior to version 4.13.0-2017020701 contain a directory traversal vulnerability in the Meterpreter extapi Clipboard.parse_dump() function. By using a specially-crafted build of Meterpreter, it is possible to write to an arbitrary directory on the Metasploit console with the permissions of the running Metasploit instance.
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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: rapid7

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Updated: 2024-08-05T14:55:35.561Z

Reserved: 2017-01-09T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2017-5229

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Status : Deferred

Published: 2017-03-02T20:59:00.500

Modified: 2025-04-20T01:37:25.860

Link: CVE-2017-5229

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