CVE-2007-4031

Vulnerability Scanner vulnerability

CVSS

7.8

EPSS

5.7%

EPSS pct

92th

Exploited

No known

Directory traversal vulnerability in a certain ActiveX control in Nessus Vulnerability Scanner 3.0.6 allows remote attackers to delete arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the argument to the deleteReport method, probably related to the SCANCTRL.ScanCtrlCtrl.1 ActiveX control in scan.dll.

Affected vendor

Nessus

Affected product

Vulnerability Scanner

CVSS vector

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

Weakness type (CWE)

CWE-22 — Path Traversal

Published

2007-07-27

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, medium attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to integrity, complete impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 5.7% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 92% of all scored CVEs.

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