CVE-2023-2005

Tenable Plugin Feed ID #202306261202 Fixes Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

State: Published
Severity: 6.3 Medium
Published: Jun 26, 2023
Updated: Dec 3, 2024
Reserved: Apr 12, 2023

Description

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.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	6.3 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	tenable

Weaknesses

CWE-427 Uncontrolled Search Path Element

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Tenable.ioTenable	before Plugin Feed ID #202306261202 Affected
NessusTenable	before Plugin Feed ID #202306261202 Affected
Security CenterTenable	before Plugin Feed ID #202306261202 Affected

References

https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2023-21

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