All editions of Rapid7 Metasploit prior to version 4.13.0-2017020701 contain a directory traversal vulnerability in the Meterpreter stdapi CommandDispatcher.cmd_download() 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.
Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2017-14336 All editions of Rapid7 Metasploit prior to version 4.13.0-2017020701 contain a directory traversal vulnerability in the Meterpreter stdapi CommandDispatcher.cmd_download() 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

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-05T14:55:35.636Z

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

Link: CVE-2017-5231

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Status : Deferred

Published: 2017-03-02T20:59:00.610

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

Link: CVE-2017-5231

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