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CVE-2017-6543

Tenable Nessus before 6.10.2 (as used alone or in Tenable Appliance before 4.5.0) was found to contain a flaw that allowed a remote, authen…

Published 9 y ago · modified 4 mo ago · JSON

CVSS
7.3
v3.0 · NVD
CISA KEV
No
not known exploited
EPSS
0.8%
percentile 58%
Public exploits
0
none known

Tenable Nessus before 6.10.2 (as used alone or in Tenable Appliance before 4.5.0) was found to contain a flaw that allowed a remote, authenticated attacker to upload a crafted file that could be written to anywhere on the system. This could be used to subsequently gain elevated privileges on the system (e.g., after a reboot). This issue only affects installations on Windows.

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

0.84% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 58% of all scored CVEs.

CVSS scores

Assigned byVersionScoreVector
NVD3.07.3CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD2.06.0AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

References

  • tenable.com /security/tns-2017-06 · x_refsource_CONFIRM, x_transferred
  • securityfocus.com /bid/96418 · vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID, x_transferred

Sources

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