CVE-2023-0524 is a privilege escalation vulnerability affecting Tenable Nessus, Tenable.io, and Tenable.sc. An authenticated attacker with sufficient permissions could modify environment variables to abuse a plugin, leading to high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. With a CVSS score of 8.8 (HIGH), this vulnerability has a low attack complexity and does not require user interaction. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion, and it is not listed in CISA's KEV catalog.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:tenable:nessus:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:tenable:tenable.io:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:tenable:tenable.sc:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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