Directory Traversal Vulnerability in Rapid7 Metasploit

CVE-2017-5231 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:H/AU:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

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.

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