Tenable Nessus up to 10.3.x Linking Key information disclosure

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A vulnerability marked as problematic has been reported in Tenable Nessus up to 10.3.x. This impacts an unknown function of the component Linking Key Handler. The manipulation leads to information disclosure. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2022-3499. There is no available exploit. It is suggested to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in Tenable Nessus up to 10.3.x (Security Testing Software). This issue affects an unknown code of the component Linking Key Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a information disclosure vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-200. The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information. Impacted is confidentiality. The summary by CVE is:

An authenticated attacker could utilize the identical agent and cluster node linking keys to potentially allow for a scenario where unauthorized disclosure of agent logs and data is present.

The weakness was presented 11/01/2022. The advisory is shared at tenable.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2022-3499 since 10/13/2022. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1592 for this issue.

Upgrading to version 10.4.0 eliminates this vulnerability.

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• Security Testing Software

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• Tenable

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• Nessus

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• 10.0
• 10.1
• 10.2
• 10.3

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• open-source

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