Description
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.
Public exploits
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Exploit-DB 2
- Nessus Vulnerability Scanner 3.0.6 - ActiveX Command Execution EDB-4237 · remote · Jul 27, 2007 · verified
- Nessus Vulnerability Scanner 3.0.6 - ActiveX Remote Delete File EDB-4230 · remote · Jul 26, 2007 · verified
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References
- 4230 exploit
- 1018469 vdb-entry
- http://www.nessus.org/news/
- nessus-scanctrl-file-overwrite(35641) vdb-entry
- 26243 third-party-advisory
- ADV-2007-2680 vdb-entry
- 25088 vdb-entry