CVE-2022-28291

CVSS 6.5 MEDIUMEPSS 0.6%CWE-522

Vexday Risk Score

13Low

SSVC decision (CISA)

Track

No exploitation signal → monitor

CVSS 6.5EPSS 0.6%KEV nãoPoC —Nuclei —Metasploit —Patch —

Lifecycle

17 Oct 2022Published on NVD

Recommendation: Monitor — no exploitation signal at the moment.

Insufficiently Protected Credentials: An authenticated user with debug privileges can retrieve stored Nessus policy credentials from the “nessusd” process in cleartext via process dumping. The affected products are all versions of Nessus Essentials and Professional. The vulnerability allows an attacker to access credentials stored in Nessus scanners, potentially compromising its customers’ network of assets.

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

Affected products

n/a · Nessus Professional

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References

https://cybersecurityworks.com/blog/zero-days/csw-expert-discovers-a-zero-day-vulnerability-in-tenables-nessus-scanner.html