CVE-2023-5623

Privilege Escalation

State
Published
Severity
7.0 High
Published
Oct 26, 2023
Updated
Sep 9, 2024
Reserved
Oct 17, 2023

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Description

NNM failed to properly set ACLs on its installation directory, which could allow a low privileged user to run arbitrary code with SYSTEM privileges where NNM is installed to a non-standard location

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.17.0 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Htenable

Weaknesses

  • CWE-276 Incorrect Default Permissions

Affected Products

ProductVersions
Nessus Network MonitorTenable
  • before 6.3.0Affected

References

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