CVE-2023-2005: Tenable Nessus

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Vulnerability in Tenable Tenable.Io, Tenable Nessus, Tenable Security Center.This issue affects Tenable.Io: before Plugin Feed ID #202306261202 ; Nessus: before Plugin Feed ID #202306261202 ; Security Center: before Plugin Feed ID #202306261202 . This vulnerability could allow a malicious actor with sufficient permissions on a scan target to place a binary in a specific filesystem location, and abuse the impacted plugin in order to escalate privileges.

Affected products

• Tenable Nessus: affected versions not specified
• Tenable Security Center: affected versions not specified
• Tenable Tenable.io: affected versions not specified

Published 2023-06-26. Last modified 2026-08-17.