Vulnerability Report

CVE-2020-5765

RCE

Title: Nessus Stored Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

RCE

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2020-5765.

CWE Category CWE-79

Published Date Jul 15, 2020

Modified Date Nov 21, 2024

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 5.4 CVSS v3.1

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.38%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2020-5765: Nessus 8.10.0 and earlier were found to contain a Stored XSS vulnerability due to improper validation of input during scan configuration. An authenticated, remote attacker could potentially exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code in a user's session. Tenable has implemented additional input validation mechanisms to correct this issue in Nessus 8.11.0.

Impacted Vendors

nessus 1

tenable 1

Reference Links

https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2020-05 https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2020-05

CVSS v3.1

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:3.1/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

CVE-2020-5765 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

November 21, 2024 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

July 15, 2020 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector NETWORK

Complexity LOW

Privileges N/A

Interaction REQUIRED

CVSS Vector String


                                    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.