THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2007-4061
HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2007-4061

Vulnerability Scanner vulnerability

CVSS
9.3
EPSS
11.2%
EPSS pct
95th
Exploited
No known
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 vendor
Nessus
Affected product
Vulnerability Scanner
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Published
2007-07-30

Risk analysis

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

Its EPSS score of 11.2% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 95% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2007-4061

  • Confirm whether Nessus Vulnerability Scanner is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2007-4061.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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