CVE-2023-6178: Tenable Nessus

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 0.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An arbitrary file write vulnerability exists where an authenticated attacker with privileges on the managing 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 10.4.4 (fixed in 10.4.4)

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