Cyber Resilience

CVE-2023-3252

Medium

Published: 29 August 2023

Published
29 August 2023
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 6.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0026 49.4th percentile
Risk Priority 14 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2023-3252 is a medium-severity Uncontrolled Search Path Element (CWE-427) vulnerability in Tenable Nessus. Its CVSS base score is 6.8 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked at the 49.4th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

An arbitrary file write vulnerability exists where an authenticated, remote attacker with administrator privileges could alter logging variables to overwrite arbitrary files on the remote host with log data, which could lead to a denial of service condition.

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
≤ 10.6.0

Mitigating Controls

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

References