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.
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MITRE
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published: 2017-03-08T23:00:00
Updated: 2024-08-05T15:33:20.378Z
Reserved: 2017-03-08T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2017-6543
Vulnrichment
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NVD
Status : Modified
Published: 2017-03-08T23:59:00.170
Modified: 2024-11-21T03:29:59.620
Link: CVE-2017-6543
Redhat
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