CVE-2023-0524

Published Feb 1, 2023

Last updated 2 years ago

Overview

Description: 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.
Source: vulnreport@tenable.com
NVD status: Analyzed

Hype score: Not currently trending

Risk scores

CVSS 3.1

Type: Primary
Base score: 8.8
Impact score: 5.9
Exploitability score: 2.8
Vector string: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Severity: HIGH

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov: NVD-CWE-noinfo

Configurations

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Overview

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Risk scores

CVSS 3.1

Weaknesses

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