Nessus Security Vulnerabilities
nextScaffoldPart in xmlparse.c in Expat (aka libexpat) before 2.4.3 has an integer overflow.
8.8CVSS
9.2AI Score
0.007EPSS
storeAtts in xmlparse.c in Expat (aka libexpat) before 2.4.3 has an integer overflow.
8.8CVSS
9.2AI Score
0.008EPSS
Expat (aka libexpat) before 2.4.4 has a signed integer overflow in XML_GetBuffer, for configurations with a nonzero XML_CONTEXT_BYTES.
9.8CVSS
9.6AI Score
0.014EPSS
Expat (aka libexpat) before 2.4.4 has an integer overflow in the doProlog function.
7.5CVSS
8.7AI Score
0.006EPSS
Insufficiently Protected Credentials: An authenticated user with debug privileges can retrieve stored Nessus policy credentials from the “nessusd” process in cleartext via process dumping. The affected products are all versions of Nessus Essentials and Professional. The vulnerability allows an atta...
6.5CVSS
6.3AI Score
0.001EPSS
An authenticated attacker could create an audit file that bypasses PowerShell cmdlet checks and executes commands with administrator privileges.
8.8CVSS
8.5AI Score
0.001EPSS
An authenticated attacker could read arbitrary files from the underlying operating system of the scanner using a custom crafted compliance audit file without providing any valid SSH credentials.
6.5CVSS
7.1AI Score
0.001EPSS
An authenticated attacker could read Nessus Debug Log file attachments from the web UI without having the correct privileges to do so. This may lead to the disclosure of information on the scan target and/or the Nessus scan to unauthorized parties able to reach the Nessus instance.
6.5CVSS
6.7AI Score
0.001EPSS
An authenticated attacker could utilize the identical agent and cluster node linking keys to potentially allow for a scenario where unauthorized disclosure of agent logs and data is present.
6.5CVSS
6.2AI Score
0.001EPSS
A vulnerability was reported where through modifying the scan variables, an authenticated user in Tenable products, that has Scan Policy Configuration roles, could manipulate audit policy variables to execute arbitrary commands on credentialed scan targets.
8.8CVSS
8.8AI Score
0.001EPSS
A privilege escalation vulnerability was identified in Nessus versions 8.10.1 through 8.15.8 and 10.0.0 through 10.4.1. An authenticated attacker could potentially execute a specially crafted file to obtain root or NT AUTHORITY / SYSTEM privileges on the Nessus host.
8.8CVSS
8.6AI Score
0.001EPSS
As part of our Security Development Lifecycle, a potential privilege escalation issue was identified internally. This could allow a malicious actor with sufficient permissions to modify environment variables and abuse an impacted plugin in order to escalate privileges. We have resolved the issue an...
8.8CVSS
8.9AI Score
0.001EPSS
Vulnerability in Tenable Tenable.Io, Tenable Nessus, Tenable Security Center.This issue affects Tenable.Io: before Plugin Feed ID #202306261202 ; Nessus: before Plugin Feed ID #202306261202 ; Security Center: before Plugin Feed ID #202306261202 . This vulnerability could allow a malicious actor wit...
8.8CVSS
8.6AI Score
0.001EPSS
A pass-back vulnerability exists where an authenticated, remote attacker with administrator privileges could uncover stored SMTP credentials within the Nessus application.This issue affects Nessus: before 10.6.0.
4.9CVSS
5.6AI Score
0.001EPSS
An arbitrary file write vulnerability exists where an authenticated, remote attacker with administrator privileges could alter logging variables to overwrite arbitrary files on the remote host with log data, which could lead to a denial of service condition.
6.8CVSS
6.4AI Score
0.001EPSS
An improper authorization vulnerability exists where an authenticated,low privileged remote attacker could view a list of all the usersavailable in the application.
4.3CVSS
5.2AI Score
0.001EPSS
Under certain conditions, a low privileged attacker could load a specially crafted file during installation or upgrade to escalate privileges on Windows and Linux hosts.
7.3CVSS
7.1AI Score
0.001EPSS
An arbitrary file write vulnerability exists where an authenticated, remote attacker with administrator privileges on the Nessus application could alter Nessus Rules variables to overwrite arbitrary files on the remote host, which could lead to a denial of service condition.
6.8CVSS
6.4AI Score
0.001EPSS
An arbitrary file write vulnerability exists where an authenticated attacker with privileges on the managing application could alter Nessus Rules variables to overwrite arbitrary files on the remote host, which could lead to a denial of service condition.
6.8CVSS
6.4AI Score
0.0005EPSS
A stored XSS vulnerability exists where an authenticated, remote attacker with administrator privileges on the Nessus application could alter Nessus proxy settings, which could lead to the execution of remote arbitrary scripts.
4.8CVSS
5.5AI Score
0.0005EPSS
A SQL injection vulnerability exists where an authenticated, low-privileged remote attacker could potentially alter scan DB content.
6.5CVSS
6.8AI Score
0.0005EPSS