Vulnerability Report

CVE-2007-4061

Title: Nessus Vulnerability Scanner Path Traversal / LFI

Path Traversal / LFI

Proof Of Concept

PoC Available for CVE-2007-4061

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date Jul 30, 2007

Modified Date Apr 09, 2025

Exploit Status Available

Score 9.3 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

11.00%

Vulnerability Summary

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.

Impacted Vendors

nessus 1

Reference Links

http://secunia.com/advisories/26243 http://www.nessus.org/news/ 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/26243 http://www.nessus.org/news/ 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

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

9.3

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2007-4061 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

Exploit-DB https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/4237

View Code

April 09, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

July 30, 2007 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.