CVE-2023-6178

CVSS 3.1 Score 6.5 of 10 (medium)

Details

Published Nov 20, 2023
Updated: Nov 29, 2023
CWE ID 787

Summary

CVE-2023-6178 is a vulnerability affecting Nessus, an vulnerability scanning software. An authenticated attacker with privileges on the managing application can exploit this arbitrary file write vulnerability by manipulating Nessus Rules variables, allowing them to overwrite arbitrary files on the remote host. This action could result in a denial of service condition for the affected system.

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Affected Products

  • Tenable Nessus

Affected Vendors

  • Tenable Network Security, Inc.

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