Description
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.
Published: 2017-03-08
Score: 7.3 High
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2017-15599 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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Microsoft Windows
Tenable Appliance Nessus
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-05T15:33:20.378Z

Reserved: 2017-03-08T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2017-6543

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2017-03-08T23:59:00.170

Modified: 2025-04-20T01:37:25.860

Link: CVE-2017-6543

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