CVE-2007-4061
28Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. It has a public proof of concept.
ssvc Attendepss 11%
exploitation probability
11%top 5% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
1 public exploit(s)
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.
Affected products
n/a · n/apublic PoCs found — 1✓ VexDay Proof
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