CVE-2017-5228

mediumpriority · track · 28EPSS 0.012 · 68 %ileEUUS

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

1.22% (68th) EPSS

CVSS 5.1 · medium

Is it mine?

2 products

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Who says so?

3 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-28

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.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

7.1

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · medium–high · 5.1–7.1

v2.05.1mediumAV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:Pprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 4.9 · impact 6.4

v3.07.1highCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Lprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 1.6 · impact 5.5

v3.06.5mediumCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-22USprimary

affected products (2)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

Rapid7 Metasploit≤ All versions prior to version 4.13.0-2017020701enisa_euvdEU
rapid7 metasploit≤ 4.13.19nvdUScpe:2.3:a:rapid7:metasploit:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

also known as (3)

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sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2017-03-02modified 2026-06-17

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references (5)

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