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CVE-2007-4061
Directory traversal vulnerability in a certain ActiveX control in Nessus Vulnerability Scanner 3.0.6 allows remote attackers to create or…
High9.3EPSS 11.2%
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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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High9.3 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 11.2% · top 4.0% of all CVEs (3 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 9.3.
Weakness
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Affected products
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References (6)
- http://www.nessus.org/news/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 4237 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- nessus-scanctrl-file-overwrite(35641) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 26243 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 25088 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- ADV-2007-2702 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
Sources
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- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
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- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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