CVE-2019-3962

published 2019-07-01

CVE-2019-3962: Content Injection vulnerability in Tenable Nessus prior to 8.5.0 may allow an authenticated, local attacker to exploit this vulnerability by convincing another…

Priority P4 13 low 3.3 CVSS 3.0

AV L AC L PR N UI R S U C N I L A N

Content Injection vulnerability in Tenable Nessus prior to 8.5.0 may allow an authenticated, local attacker to exploit this vulnerability by convincing another targeted Nessus user to view a malicious URL and use Nessus to send fraudulent messages. Successful exploitation could allow the authenticated adversary to inject arbitrary text into the feed status, which will remain saved post session expiration.

Affected

2 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
tenable	nessus	< 8.5.0	8.5.0
tenable	nessus	—	—

CVSS provenance

nvd v3.0 3.3 LOW CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

nvd v2.0 4.3 MEDIUM AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

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