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CVE-2017-5179

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2017-5179 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability affecting Tenable Nessus versions prior to 6.9.3. This flaw allows remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML through unspecified vectors, potentially leading to client-side attacks. The attack requires user interaction and low privileges, with a limited impact on confidentiality and integrity. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 6.9.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:tenable:nessus:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

5.4MEDIUM

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
LOW
Integrity Impact
LOW
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
2.3
Impact Score
2.7
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.25%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
66.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0125 is in the 95th percentile among its peer group of 15,239 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

tenable.com / security/tns-2017-01
Vendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/95307
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
securitytracker.com / id/1037558
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry