CVE-2022-32974: Tenable Nessus

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

An authenticated attacker could read arbitrary files from the underlying operating system of the scanner using a custom crafted compliance audit file without providing any valid SSH credentials.

Affected products

• Tenable Nessus: before 10.2.0 (fixed in 10.2.0)

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