CVE-2017-5231 (GCVE-0-2017-5231)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-03-02 20:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 14:55
VLAI
Summary
All editions of Rapid7 Metasploit prior to version 4.13.0-2017020701 contain a directory traversal vulnerability in the Meterpreter stdapi CommandDispatcher.cmd_download() function. By using a specially-crafted build of Meterpreter, it is possible to write to an arbitrary directory on the Metasploit console with the permissions of the running Metasploit instance.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • Directory Traversal
Assigner
rapid7 CNA
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Rapid7 Metasploit Affected: All versions prior to version 4.13.0-2017020701
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Date Public
2017-03-01 00:00
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