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CVE-2017-5228

CVE-2017-5228

3Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.

ssvc Trackepss 1.2%
exploitation probability
1.2%top 34% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
All editions of Rapid7 Metasploit prior to version 4.13.0-2017020701 contain a directory traversal vulnerability in the Meterpreter stdapi Dir.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.
Affected products
Rapid7 · Metasploit