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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 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.

  • Published: Mar 9, 2017
  • Updated: Apr 13, 2023
  • CVE: CVE-2017-6543
  • Severity: High
  • Exploit:

CVSS v3:

  • Severity: High
  • Score: 7.3
  • AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v2:

  • Severity: Medium
  • Score: 6
  • AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

No CWE or OWASP classifications available.

Software From Fixed in
tenable / nessus - 6.10.1.x
tenable / appliance 4.4.0 4.4.0.x