Pass-back vulnerability in Nessus
CVE-2023-3251

4.1MEDIUM

Key Information:

Vendor

Tenable

Status
Nessus
Vendor
CVE Published:
29 August 2023

What is 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.

Affected Version(s)

Nessus Windows 0

References

https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2023-29

CVSS V3.1

Score:
4.1
Severity:
MEDIUM
Confidentiality:
Low
Integrity:
None
Availability:
Low
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
High
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Changed

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

Credit

Pedro Jose Navas Perez at Hispasec
.