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CVE Reference: CVE-2007-4061
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Original Page at CVE MITRE:
CVE-2007-4061
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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.
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CVE Status:
Candidate
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References:
XF
http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/35641
SAID
Secunia Advisory: SA26243
MISC
http://www.nessus.org/news/
MILW0RM
http://www.milw0rm.com/exploits/4237
BID
25088
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