CVE-2007-4031: Nessus Vulnerability Scanner

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 5.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Nessus Vulnerability Scanner: version 3.0.6 only

Published 2007-07-27. Last modified 2026-06-16.