CVE-2022-28291: Tenable Nessus

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Insufficiently Protected Credentials: An authenticated user with debug privileges can retrieve stored Nessus policy credentials from the “nessusd” process in cleartext via process dumping. The affected products are all versions of Nessus Essentials and Professional. The vulnerability allows an attacker to access credentials stored in Nessus scanners, potentially compromising its customers’ network of assets.

Affected products

• Tenable Nessus: any version

Published 2022-10-17. Last modified 2026-06-17.