CVE-2017-7849: Tenable Nessus

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Nessus 6.10.x before 6.10.5 was found to be vulnerable to a local denial of service condition due to insecure permissions when running in Agent Mode.

Affected products

• Tenable Nessus: version 6.10.0 only; version 6.10.1 only; version 6.10.2 only; version 6.10.3 only; version 6.10.4 only

Published 2017-04-19. Last modified 2026-06-17.