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#Vulnerabilities 64
Date Id Summary Products Score Patch Annotated
2021-07-21 CVE-2021-20106 Nessus Agent versions 8.2.5 and earlier were found to contain a privilege escalation vulnerability which could allow a Nessus administrator user to upload a specially crafted file that could lead to gaining administrator privileges on the Nessus host. Nessus 6.5
2021-11-03 CVE-2021-20135 Nessus versions 8.15.2 and earlier were found to contain a local privilege escalation vulnerability which could allow an authenticated, local administrator to run specific executables on the Nessus Agent host. Tenable has included a fix for this issue in Nessus 10.0.0. The installation files can be obtained from the Tenable Downloads Portal (https://www.tenable.com/downloads/nessus). Nessus 6.7
2022-03-15 CVE-2022-0778 The BN_mod_sqrt() function, which computes a modular square root, contains a bug that can cause it to loop forever for non-prime moduli. Internally this function is used when parsing certificates that contain elliptic curve public keys in compressed form or explicit elliptic curve parameters with a base point encoded in compressed form. It is possible to trigger the infinite loop by crafting a certificate that has invalid explicit curve parameters. Since certificate parsing happens prior to... Debian_linux, Fedora, Mariadb, 500f_firmware, A250_firmware, Cloud_volumes_ontap_mediator, Clustered_data_ontap, Clustered_data_ontap_antivirus_connector, Santricity_smi\-S_provider, Storagegrid, Node\.js, Openssl, Nessus 7.5
2022-06-21 CVE-2022-32973 An authenticated attacker could create an audit file that bypasses PowerShell cmdlet checks and executes commands with administrator privileges. Nessus 8.8
2022-06-21 CVE-2022-32974 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. Nessus 6.5
2022-10-17 CVE-2022-28291 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 attacker to access credentials stored in Nessus scanners, potentially compromising its customers’ network of assets. Nessus 6.5
2023-01-20 CVE-2023-0101 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. Nessus 8.8
2023-02-01 CVE-2023-0524 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 and also made several defense-in-depth fixes alongside. While the probability of successful exploitation is low, Tenable is committed to securing our customers’ environments and our products. The... Nessus, Tenable\.io, Tenable\.sc 8.8
2023-08-29 CVE-2023-3251 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. Nessus 4.9
2023-08-29 CVE-2023-3252 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. Nessus 6.5