Vulnerability Report

CVE-2017-6543

Title: Tenable Nessus

Other

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2017-6543.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date Mar 08, 2017

Modified Date May 13, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 7.3 CVSS v3.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.27%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2017-6543: Tenable Nessus before 6.10.2 (as used alone or in Tenable Appliance before 4.5.0) was found to contain a flaw that allowed a remote, authenticated attacker to upload a crafted file that could be written to anywhere on the system. This could be used to subsequently gain elevated privileges on the system (e.g., after a reboot). This issue only affects installations on Windows.

Impacted Vendors

nessus 1

tenable 2

Reference Links

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96418 http://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2017-06 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96418 http://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2017-06

CVSS v3.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

7.3

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Complexity

LOW

Privileges

N/A

Interaction

REQUIRED

Confidentiality

N/A

Integrity

N/A

Availability

N/A

Scope

UNCHANGED

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

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

6.0

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns