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CVE-2017-5229
HIGH · CVSS 7.1
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2017-03-02T20:59:00.500 · Last modified 2026-06-17T01:20:12.363

Summary

All editions of Rapid7 Metasploit prior to version 4.13.0-2017020701 contain a directory traversal vulnerability in the Meterpreter extapi Clipboard.parse_dump() 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

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References

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