CVE-2007-4226

high

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in the BlueCat Networks Proteus IPAM appliance 2.0.2.0 (Adonis DNS/DHCP appliance 5.0.2.8) allows remote authenticated administrators, with certain TFTP privileges, to create and overwrite arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in a pathname. NOTE: this can be leveraged for administrative access by overwriting /etc/shadow.

References

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/35807

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2840

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/475667/100/0/threaded

http://securityreason.com/securityalert/2986

http://secunia.com/advisories/26354

http://osvdb.org/39397

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=118669433531027&w=2

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2007-08-08

Updated: 2026-06-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:H/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.2

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.0529