NVD

Id
56192  
Name
CVE-2007-4061  
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.  
Reject
 
CVSS Version
2  
CVSS Score
9.3  
Severity
High  
CVSS Base Score
9.3  
CVSS Impact Subscore
10  
CVSS Exploit Subscore
8.6  
CVSS Vector
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)  
Pub Date
2017-01-07  
Published
2007-07-30  
Modified Date
2011-03-07  
Seq
2007-4061  

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