CVE-2020-5812: Tenable Nessus Amazon Machine Image

Medium severity, CVSS 5.9. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Nessus AMI versions 8.12.0 and earlier were found to either not validate, or incorrectly validate, a certificate which could allow an attacker to spoof a trusted entity by using a man-in-the-middle (MITM) attack.

Affected products

• Tenable Nessus Amazon Machine Image: up to and including 8.12.0

Published 2021-02-06. Last modified 2026-06-17.