Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Jul 30, 2007· Updated Apr 23, 2026

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.

Affected products

Nessus/Vulnerability Scanner
cpe:2.3:a:nessus:vulnerability_scanner:3.0.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Patches

No patches discovered yet.

Vulnerability mechanics

AI mechanics synthesis has not run for this CVE yet.

References

secunia.com/advisories/26243nvdPatchVendor Advisory
www.nessus.org/news/nvdPatch
www.securityfocus.com/bid/25088nvd
www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2702nvd
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/35641nvd
www.exploit-db.com/exploits/4237nvd

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