High severity · published Mar 8, 2017
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…
7.3
CVSS
0.8%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.8% · higher than 58% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
AP
Appliance · Tenable
4.4.0 · source: NVD
NE
Nessus · Tenable
through 6.10.1 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-6543
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-6543
www.securityfocus.com
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96418
Vendor Advisory
http://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2017-06
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