CVEs-PoC/2007/CVE-2007-4061.md

### [CVE-2007-4061](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-4061)
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### 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.

### POC

#### Reference
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/4237

#### Github
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