CVE-2023-6062: Tenable Nessus

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An arbitrary file write vulnerability exists where an authenticated, remote attacker with administrator privileges on the Nessus application could alter Nessus Rules variables to overwrite arbitrary files on the remote host, which could lead to a denial of service condition.

Affected products

• Tenable Nessus: before 10.5.7 (fixed in 10.5.7); from 10.6.0, before 10.6.3 (fixed in 10.6.3)

Published 2023-11-20. Last modified 2026-06-17.