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Nessus
by tenable · last CVE Jun 25, 2026
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CVE-2021-20135
6.7
0%
Nov 3
Nessus versions 8.15.2 and earlier were found to contain a local privilege escalation vulnerability which could allow an authenticated, local administrator to run specific…
Affected: through 8.15.2
CVE-2021-20079
6.7
1%
Jun 29
Nessus versions 8.13.2 and earlier were found to contain a privilege escalation vulnerability which could allow a Nessus administrator user to upload a specially crafted file that…
Affected: through 8.13.2
CVE-2021-20100
6.7
0%
Jun 28
Nessus Agent 8.2.4 and earlier for Windows were found to contain multiple local privilege escalation vulnerabilities which could allow an authenticated, local administrator to run…
Affected: before 8.2.5
CVE-2021-20099
6.7
0%
Jun 28
Nessus Agent 8.2.4 and earlier for Windows were found to contain multiple local privilege escalation vulnerabilities which could allow an authenticated, local administrator to run…
Affected: through 8.2.4
CVE-2024-0971
6.5
1%
Feb 7
A SQL injection vulnerability exists where an authenticated, low-privileged remote attacker could potentially alter scan DB content
Affected: before 10.7.0
CVE-2023-6178
6.5
1%
Nov 20
An arbitrary file write vulnerability exists where an authenticated attacker with privileges on the managing application could alter Nessus Rules variables to overwrite arbitrary…
Affected: before 10.4.4
CVE-2023-6062
6.5
1%
Nov 20
An arbitrary file write vulnerability exists where an authenticated, remote attacker with administrator privileges on the Nessus application could alter Nessus Rules variables to…
Affected: before 10.5.7; 10.6.0 before 10.6.3
CVE-2023-3252
6.5
1%
Aug 29
An arbitrary file write vulnerability exists where an authenticated, remote attacker with administrator privileges could alter logging variables to overwrite arbitrary files on…
Affected: before 10.6.0
CVE-2022-3499
6.5
1%
Oct 31
An authenticated attacker could utilize the identical agent and cluster node linking keys to potentially allow for a scenario where unauthorized disclosure of agent logs and data…
Affected: before 10.4.0
CVE-2022-33757
6.5
1%
Oct 24
An authenticated attacker could read Nessus Debug Log file attachments from the web UI without having the correct privileges to do so
Affected: before 10.2.0
CVE-2022-28291
6.5
1%
Oct 17
Insufficiently Protected Credentials: An authenticated user with debug privileges can retrieve stored Nessus policy credentials from the “nessusd” process in cleartext via process…
Affected: All versions, or not specified
CVE-2022-32974
6.5
1%
Jun 21
An authenticated attacker could read arbitrary files from the underlying operating system of the scanner using a custom crafted compliance audit file without providing any valid…
Affected: before 10.2.0
CVE-2021-20106
6.5
1%
Jul 21
Nessus Agent versions 8.2.5 and earlier were found to contain a privilege escalation vulnerability which could allow a Nessus administrator user to upload a specially crafted file…
Affected: through 8.2.5
CVE-2019-3982
6.5
2%
Oct 23
Nessus versions 8.6.0 and earlier were found to contain a Denial of Service vulnerability due to improper validation of specific imported scan types
Affected: through 8.6.0
CVE-2018-1148
6.5
1%
May 18
In Nessus before 7.1.0, Session Fixation exists due to insufficient session management within the application
Affected: before 7.1.0
CVE-2016-4055
6.5
10%
Jan 23
The duration function in the moment package before 2.11.2 for Node.js allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a long string, aka a "regular…
Affected: through 8.2.3
CVE-2019-3961
6.1
1%
Jun 25
Nessus versions 8.4.0 and earlier were found to contain a reflected XSS vulnerability due to improper validation of user-supplied input
Affected: through 8.4.0
CVE-2021-3449
5.9
64%
Mar 25
NULL pointer deref in signature_algorithms processing
Affected: through 8.13.1
CVE-2019-1559
5.9
17%
Feb 27
0-byte record padding oracle
Affected: through 8.2.3
CVE-2017-7849
5.5
0%
Apr 19
Nessus 6.10.x before 6.10.5 was found to be vulnerable to a local denial of service condition due to insecure permissions when running in Agent Mode
Affected: 6.10.0; 6.10.1; 6.10.2; 6.10.3; 6.10.4
CVE-2020-5765
5.4
1%
Jul 15
Nessus 8.10.0 and earlier were found to contain a Stored XSS vulnerability due to improper validation of input during scan configuration
Affected: through 8.10.0
CVE-2019-3923
5.4
1%
Feb 12
Nessus versions 8.2.1 and earlier were found to contain a stored XSS vulnerability due to improper validation of user-supplied input
Affected: through 8.2.1
CVE-2018-1147
5.4
1%
May 18
In Nessus before 7.1.0, a XSS vulnerability exists due to improper input validation
Affected: before 7.1.0
CVE-2017-2122
5.4
1%
May 12
Cross-site scripting vulnerability in Nessus versions 6.8.0, 6.8.1, 6.9.0, 6.9.1 and 6.9.2 allows remote authenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via…
Affected: 6.8.0; 6.8.1; 6.9.0; 6.9.1; 6.9.2
CVE-2016-9259
5.4
1%
Feb 28
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Tenable Nessus before 6.9.1 allows remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors
Affected: 6.8; 6.8.1; 6.8.2; 6.9
CVE-2016-9260
5.4
1%
Jan 31
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Tenable Nessus before 6.9 allows remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via vectors related to handling of…
Affected: through 6.8.1
CVE-2017-5179
5.4
1%
Jan 5
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Tenable Nessus before 6.9.3 allows remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors
Affected: through 6.9.2
CVE-2026-57587
5.3
0%
Jun 25
SQL Injection in Nessus via Reverse DNS Lookup
Affected: prior to 10.12.1
CVE-2023-3251
4.9
1%
Aug 29
A pass-back vulnerability exists where an authenticated, remote attacker with administrator privileges could uncover stored SMTP credentials within the Nessus application.This…
Affected: before 10.6.0
CVE-2024-0955
4.8
1%
Feb 7
A stored XSS vulnerability exists where an authenticated, remote attacker with administrator privileges on the Nessus application could alter Nessus proxy settings, which could…
Affected: before 10.7.0
CVE-2016-1000029
4.8
1%
Dec 27
Tenable Nessus before 6.8 has a stored XSS issue that requires admin-level authentication to the Nessus UI, and would potentially impact other admins (Tenable IDs 5218 and 5269)
Affected: before 6.8.0
CVE-2016-1000028
4.8
1%
Dec 27
Tenable Nessus before 6.8 has a stored XSS issue that requires admin-level authentication to the Nessus UI, and would only potentially impact other admins
Affected: before 6.8.0
CVE-2018-5407
4.7
3%
Nov 15
Simultaneous Multi-threading (SMT) in processors can enable local users to exploit software vulnerable to timing attacks via a side-channel timing attack on 'port contention'
Affected: before 8.1.1
CVE-2023-3253
4.3
1%
Aug 29
An improper authorization vulnerability exists where an authenticated, low privileged remote attacker could view a list of all the users available in the application
Affected: before 10.6.0
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