Cyber Resilience

CVE-2023-2005

Medium

Published: 26 June 2023

Published
26 June 2023
Modified
03 December 2024
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 6.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0026 49.8th percentile
Risk Priority 13 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2023-2005 is a medium-severity Uncontrolled Search Path Element (CWE-427) vulnerability in Tenable Nessus. Its CVSS base score is 6.3 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked at the 49.8th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Vulnerability in Tenable Tenable.Io, Tenable Nessus, Tenable Security Center.This issue affects Tenable.Io: before Plugin Feed ID #202306261202 ; Nessus: before Plugin Feed ID #202306261202 ; Security Center: before Plugin Feed ID #202306261202 . This vulnerability could allow a malicious actor…

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with sufficient permissions on a scan target to place a binary in a specific filesystem location, and abuse the impacted plugin in order to escalate privileges.

CWE(s)
NVD-CWE-noinfoCWE-427

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

tenable
nessus
all versions
tenable
securitycenter
all versions
tenable
tenable.io
all versions

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

References