CVE-2023-3251

MEDIUM

Tenable Nessus < 10.6.0 - Insufficiently Protected Credentials

Title source: rule

Description

A pass-back vulnerability exists where an authenticated, remote attacker with administrator privileges could uncover stored SMTP credentials within the Nessus application.This issue affects Nessus: before 10.6.0.

References (1)

[Vendor Advisory] https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2023-29

Scores

CVSS v3 4.1

EPSS 0.0016

EPSS Percentile 36.4%

Attack Vector NETWORK

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N

Classification

CWE

CWE-522

Status published

Affected Products (1)

tenable/nessus < 10.6.0

Timeline

Published Aug 29, 2023

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026