CVE-2019-3962: Tenable Nessus

Low severity, CVSS 3.3. EPSS: 1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Content Injection vulnerability in Tenable Nessus prior to 8.5.0 may allow an authenticated, local attacker to exploit this vulnerability by convincing another targeted Nessus user to view a malicious URL and use Nessus to send fraudulent messages. Successful exploitation could allow the authenticated adversary to inject arbitrary text into the feed status, which will remain saved post session expiration.

Affected products

• Tenable Nessus: before 8.5.0 (fixed in 8.5.0)

Published 2019-07-01. Last modified 2026-06-17.