CVE-2007-4226
Directory traversal vulnerability in the BlueCat Networks Proteus IPAM appliance 2.0.2.0 (Adonis DNS/DHCP appliance 5.0.2.8) allows remote…
- 7.1HighCVSS base score
- 3.8%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 10% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 1Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
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.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list an Exploit-DB entry for it.
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Exploit-DB1 entry
- BlueCat Networks Adonis 5.0.2.8 - TFTP Privilege Escalation (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 30454remote, linuxpublished 6 Aug 2007Verified
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Timeline
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Published
- 17 years later
· 17 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High7.1 | AV:N/AC:H/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 3.8% · top 10% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.1.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
9
- 1018521 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- adonis-tftp-privilege-escalation(35807) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 25214 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- ADV-2007-2840 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 2986 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASONx_transferred
- 20070809 Re: TS-2007-002-0: BlueCat Networks Adonis root Privilege Access (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 20070806 TS-2007-002-0: BlueCat Networks Adonis root Privilege Access (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 39397 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- 26354 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2007-4209 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2007-4226)Record last updated .