CVE-2023-0101

published 2023-01-20

CVE-2023-0101: A privilege escalation vulnerability was identified in Nessus versions 8.10.1 through 8.15.8 and 10.0.0 through 10.4.1. An authenticated attacker could…

Priority P3 50 high 8.8 CVSS 3.1

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

A privilege escalation vulnerability was identified in Nessus versions 8.10.1 through 8.15.8 and 10.0.0 through 10.4.1. An authenticated attacker could potentially execute a specially crafted file to obtain root or NT AUTHORITY / SYSTEM privileges on the Nessus host.

Affected

3 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
tenable	nessus	—	—
tenable	nessus	>= 10.0.0 < 10.4.2	10.4.2
tenable	nessus	>= 8.10.1 < 8.15.8	8.15.8

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