Arbitrary File Write (Tenable Nessus)

CVE-2023-6062
MEDIUM 6.8

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 1.03 % · percentile 64 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
tenable
NVD status
Modified

Description

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.

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-787 — Out-of-bounds Write

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:Htenable
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:HNVD · vulnreport@tenable.com (Secondary)
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:HNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Tenable · Nessusaffected 0 < 10.6.2 ; unaffected 10.5.7

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD