CVE-2007-4061: Nessus Vulnerability Scanner

High severity, CVSS 9.3. EPSS: 11.2% 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 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: version 3.0.6 only

Published 2007-07-30. Last modified 2026-06-16.