CVE-2007-4031

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-22 Path Traversal

Publication date:

27/07/2007

Last modified:

09/04/2025

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.

Impact

Vector 2.0

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:C CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 7.80 HIGH
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:C

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Medium
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): Physical
Availability (A): Complete