CVE Catalog

CVE-2017-6543

High
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

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.

Risk Assessment

This vulnerability poses a risk to organizations as an attacker could gain access to critical system resources, potentially leading to serious security breaches.

Recommendation

It is recommended to update Tenable Nessus to version 6.10.2 or later and Tenable Appliance to version 4.5.0 or later to mitigate this vulnerability.

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Original NVD description (English source)

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.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS