CVE-2017-5231: Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory

All editions of Rapid7 Metasploit prior to version 4.13.0-2017020701 contain a directory traversal vulnerability in the Meterpreter stdapi CommandDispatcher.cmddownload function. By using a specially-crafted build of Meterpreter, it is possible to write to an arbitrary directory on the Metasploit...