Is CVE-2007-4061 in the CISA KEV catalog?

No. CVE-2007-4061 is not currently on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities list.

What is the CVSS severity of CVE-2007-4061?

CVE-2007-4061 has a CVSS v2 base score of 9.3 (HIGH).

What is the EPSS score for CVE-2007-4061?

CVE-2007-4061 has an EPSS score of 11.18% (95th percentile), estimating the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days.

CVE & CISA-KEV Catalog

CVE-2007-4061

HIGHEPSS 95th pctl

9.3

CVSS v2

NVD

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.

CVSS v2 Vector

No CVSS vector data available.

Exploit Intelligence

11.18%probability of exploitation in 30 days

95thpercentile

Very high risk: more likely to be exploited than 95% of all known CVEs.

References

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This product uses NVD data but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD. EPSS scores courtesy of FIRST.org (https://www.first.org/epss). Source: CISA KEV Catalog. Data as of 2026-04-23.