CVE-2023-3251

Pass-back vulnerability in Nessus

State
Published
Severity
4.1 Medium
Published
Aug 29, 2023
Updated
Sep 30, 2024
Reserved
Jun 14, 2023

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Description

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.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.14.1 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:Ntenable

Weaknesses

  • CWE-522 Insufficiently Protected Credentials

Affected Products

ProductVersions
NessusTenable
  • before 10.6.0Affected

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