Vulnerability Report

CVE-2017-2122

Title: Tenable Nessus Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

XSS

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2017-2122.

CWE Category CWE-79

Published Date May 12, 2017

Modified Date May 13, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 5.4 CVSS v3.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.37%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2017-2122: Cross-site scripting vulnerability in Nessus versions 6.8.0, 6.8.1, 6.9.0, 6.9.1 and 6.9.2 allows remote authenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors.

Impacted Vendors

tenable 1

nessus 1

Reference Links

http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN87760109/index.html https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2017-01 http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN87760109/index.html https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2017-01

CVSS v3.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

5.4

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Complexity

LOW

Privileges

N/A

Interaction

REQUIRED

Confidentiality

N/A

Integrity

N/A

Availability

N/A

Scope

CHANGED

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

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity LOW

3.5

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns