CVE-2023-5847: Tenable Nessus

High severity, CVSS 7.3. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Under certain conditions, a low privileged attacker could load a specially crafted file during installation or upgrade to escalate privileges on Windows and Linux hosts.

Affected products

• Tenable Nessus: before 10.6.2 (fixed in 10.6.2)
• Tenable Nessus Agent: before 10.4.3 (fixed in 10.4.3)

Published 2023-11-01. Last modified 2026-06-17.