CVE-2017-5179: Tenable Nessus

Medium severity, CVSS 5.4. EPSS: 1.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Tenable Nessus before 6.9.3 allows remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors.

Affected products

• Tenable Nessus: up to and including 6.9.2

Published 2017-01-05. Last modified 2026-06-17.