Vulnerability Report

CVE-2017-7199

Title: Tenable Nessus Path Traversal / LFI

Arbitrary File Access

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2017-7199.

CWE Category CWE-732

Published Date Mar 23, 2017

Modified Date May 13, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 7.8 CVSS v3.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.08%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2017-7199: Nessus 6.6.2 - 6.10.3 contains a flaw related to insecure permissions that may allow a local attacker to escalate privileges when the software is running in Agent Mode. Version 6.10.4 fixes this issue.

Impacted Vendors

nessus 1

tenable 1

Reference Links

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97110 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038124 https://aspe1337.blogspot.nl/2017/04/writeup-of-cve-2017-7199.html https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2017-08 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97110 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038124 https://aspe1337.blogspot.nl/2017/04/writeup-of-cve-2017-7199.html https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2017-08

CVSS v3.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

7.8

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Complexity

LOW

Privileges

N/A

Interaction

NONE

Confidentiality

N/A

Integrity

N/A

Availability

N/A

Scope

UNCHANGED

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

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

7.2

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns