CVE-2022-28291 is an Insufficiently Protected Credentials vulnerability affecting all versions of Tenable Nessus Essentials and Professional. An authenticated user with debug privileges can extract stored Nessus policy credentials in cleartext from the "nessusd" process via process dumping. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 6.5 (Medium), indicating a network-based attack with low complexity that can lead to high confidentiality impact by compromising customer network assets. There is currently no public exploit code available, it is not listed in CISA's KEV catalog, and it has received minimal community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
All Versions ImpactedCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:tenable:nessus:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
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The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.