CVE-2023-6178

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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