CVE-2017-6543: Tenable Appliance

High severity, CVSS 7.3. EPSS: 0.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Tenable Nessus before 6.10.2 (as used alone or in Tenable Appliance before 4.5.0) was found to contain a flaw that allowed a remote, authenticated attacker to upload a crafted file that could be written to anywhere on the system. This could be used to subsequently gain elevated privileges on the system (e.g., after a reboot). This issue only affects installations on Windows.

Affected products

• Tenable Appliance: version 4.4.0 only
• Tenable Nessus: up to and including 6.10.1

Published 2017-03-08. Last modified 2026-06-17.