VDB-219904 · CVE-2023-0524 · GCVE-0-2023-0524

Tenable Nessus/tenable.io/tenable.sc privilege escalation

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Tenable Nessus, tenable.io and tenable.sc. It has been declared as critical. This vulnerability affects unknown code. Executing a manipulation can lead to an unknown weakness. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2023-0524. There is no exploit available. Applying a patch is advised to resolve this issue.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Tenable Nessus, tenable.io and tenable.sc (Security Testing Software) (version now known). It has been declared as critical. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

As part of our Security Development Lifecycle, a potential privilege escalation issue was identified internally. This could allow a malicious actor with sufficient permissions to modify environment variables and abuse an impacted plugin in order to escalate privileges. We have resolved the issue and also made several defense-in-depth fixes alongside. While the probability of successful exploitation is low, Tenable is committed to securing our customers’ environments and our products. The updates have been distributed via the Tenable plugin feed in feed serial numbers equal to or greater than #202212212055.

The weakness was shared 02/01/2023. The advisory is shared for download at tenable.com. This vulnerability was named CVE-2023-0524 since 01/27/2023. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available.

Applying the patch 202212212055 is able to eliminate this problem.

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Productinfo

Type

Security Testing Software

Vendor

Tenable

Name

License

open-source

CPE 2.3info

CPE 2.2info

CVSSv4info

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CVSSv3info

VulDB Meta Base Score: 7.1
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 7.1

VulDB Base Score: 5.5
VulDB Temp Score: 5.3
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VulDB Reliability: 🔍

NVD Base Score: 8.8
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Exploitinginfo

Class: Privilege escalation
CWE: Unknown
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Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Yes

Availability: 🔍
Status: Not defined

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Threat Intelligenceinfo

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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: Patch
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Patch: 202212212055

Timelineinfo

01/27/2023 🔍
02/01/2023 +5 days 🔍
02/01/2023 +0 days 🔍
03/01/2023 +28 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: tenable.com
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2023-0524 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2023-0524
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-219904
scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20091204

Entryinfo

Created: 02/01/2023 10:44
Updated: 03/01/2023 09:13
Changes: 02/01/2023 10:44 (38), 03/01/2023 09:13 (11)
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