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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Jul 30, 2007· Updated Jun 16, 2026

CVE-2007-4061

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.

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Affected products

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  • Tenable/Vulnerability Scanner2 versions
    cpe:2.3:a:nessus:vulnerability_scanner:3.0.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 1 more
    • cpe:2.3:a:nessus:vulnerability_scanner:3.0.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • (no CPE)range: 3.0.6

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