CVE-2022-32973: Tenable Nessus

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 1.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An authenticated attacker could create an audit file that bypasses PowerShell cmdlet checks and executes commands with administrator privileges.

Affected products

• Tenable Nessus: before 10.2.0 (fixed in 10.2.0)

Published 2022-06-21. Last modified 2026-06-17.