Medium severity · published Aug 29, 2023
CVE-2023-3251
A pass-back vulnerability exists where an authenticated, remote attacker with administrator privileges could uncover stored SMTP credentials within the Nessus application.This…
4.9
CVSS
0.6%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
A pass-back vulnerability exists where an authenticated, remote attacker with administrator privileges could uncover stored SMTP credentials within the Nessus application.This issue affects Nessus: before 10.6.0.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
High
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.6% · higher than 49% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
NE
Nessus · Tenable
before 10.6.0 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-3251
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-3251
Vendor Advisory
https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2023-29
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