CVE-2007-4061

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.

• http://secunia.com/advisories/26243Patch, Vendor Advisory
• http://www.nessus.org/news/Patch
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25088
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2702
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/35641
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/4237
• http://secunia.com/advisories/26243Patch, Vendor Advisory
• http://www.nessus.org/news/Patch
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25088
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2702
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/35641
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/4237

Published

Jul 30, 2007

Last Modified

Jun 16, 2026

Status

Modified

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