CVEvulnerability
CVE-2023-5847
7.3 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2023-11-01
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 6.7 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.3 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-269
Description
Under certain conditions, a low privileged attacker could load a specially crafted file during installation or upgrade to escalate privileges on Windows and Linux hosts.
Affected configurations
• tenable nessus (< 10.6.2)
• tenable nessus agent (< 10.4.3)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management weakness
References
- https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2023-37 Vendor Advisory
- https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2023-38 Vendor Advisory
- https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2023-37 Vendor Advisory
- https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2023-38 Vendor Advisory