CVE Catalog

CVE-2023-2005

MediumCVSS 6.3
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.38%

31th percentile - higher than 31% of all known CVEs

Summary

A vulnerability in Tenable.Io, Tenable Nessus, and Tenable Security Center before Plugin Feed ID #202306261202. A malicious actor with sufficient permissions on a scan target can place a binary in a specific filesystem location and abuse the impacted plugin to escalate privileges.

Risk Assessment

An attacker with access to a scan target can escalate privileges, potentially leading to full system compromise.

Recommendation

Update the Plugin Feed to version #202306261202 or later for all affected products.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

Vulnerability in Tenable Tenable.Io, Tenable Nessus, Tenable Security Center.This issue affects Tenable.Io: before Plugin Feed ID #202306261202 ; Nessus: before Plugin Feed ID #202306261202 ; Security Center: before Plugin Feed ID #202306261202 . This vulnerability could allow a malicious actor with sufficient permissions on a scan target to place a binary in a specific filesystem location, and abuse the impacted plugin in order to escalate privileges.

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