Pass-back vulnerability in Nessus (Tenable Nessus)

CVE-2023-3251
MEDIUM 4.1

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.61 % · percentile 49 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
tenable
NVD status
Modified

Description

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.

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-522 — Insufficiently Protected Credentials

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 4.1CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:Ntenable
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 4.1CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:NNVD · vulnreport@tenable.com (Secondary)
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 4.9CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:NNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Tenable · Nessusaffected 0 < 10.6.0

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