CVE-2023-3251

low-risk
Published 2023-08-29

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.

Do I need to act?

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0.16% chance of exploitation
EPSS score — low exploit probability
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Not on CISA KEV list
No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA
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Patch status unknown
Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance
4
CVSS 4.1/10 Medium
NETWORK / LOW complexity

Affected Products (1)

Affected Vendors

Tenable

References (2)

Vendor Advisory https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2023-29
Vendor Advisory https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2023-29
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low-risk
Severity 18/34 · Moderate
Exploitability 1/34 · Minimal
Exposure 5/34 · Minimal