Tenable Plugin Feed ID #202306261202 Fixes Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
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.
- Published
- Jun 26, 2023
- Updated
- Aug 17, 2026
- EPSS
- 0.4% · 29th percentile
- CWE
- CWE-427
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Action score
35
Monitor
Low priority for now.
- CVSS
- 35 / 40 · 8.8 / 10
- CISA KEV
- 0 / 30 · Not listed
- EPSS
- 0 / 30 · 0.4%
CISA SSVC decision
- Exploitation
- none
- Automatable
- no
- Technical impact
- total
Vulnrichment: CISA's decision-tree inputs.
CNA vs NVD score
- NVD
- 8.8
- CNA · tenable
- 6.3
- 2.5 point gap
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The score given by the assigning authority versus NVD’s independent score. A gap means the severity is contested.
Affected systems
| Vendor | Product | CPE |
|---|---|---|
| tenable | nessus | cpe:2.3:a:tenable:nessus |
| tenable | security center | cpe:2.3:a:tenable:security_center |
| tenable | tenable.io | cpe:2.3:a:tenable:tenable.io |
Affected versions
NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.
- tenable nessusall versions
- tenable security centerall versions
- tenable tenable.ioall versions
Versions reported by the vendor
Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (tenable). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.
Tenable Nessus
- before Plugin Feed ID #202306261202affected · Plugin Feed ID #202306261202
Tenable Security Center
- before Plugin Feed ID #202306261202affected · Plugin Feed ID #202306261202
Tenable Tenable.io
- before Plugin Feed ID #202306261202affected · Plugin Feed ID #202306261202
Same product
tenable: all recordsOther highest-scoring records for the same primary product.
- CVE-2022-4313A vulnerability was reported where through modifying the scan variables, an authenticated user in Tenable products, that has Scan Policy Con35Monitor
- CVE-2023-0524As part of our Security Development Lifecycle, a potential privilege escalation issue was identified internally.35Monitor
- CVE-2023-0101A privilege escalation vulnerability was identified in Nessus versions 8.10.1 through 8.15.8 and 10.0.0 through 10.4.1.35Monitor
- CVE-2022-32973An authenticated attacker could create an audit file that bypasses PowerShell cmdlet checks and executes commands with administrator privile35Monitor
- CVE-2019-3974Nessus 8.5.2 and earlier on Windows platforms were found to contain an issue where certain system files could be overwritten arbitrarily, po33Monitor
- CVE-2024-3290A race condition vulnerability exists where an authenticated, local attacker on a Windows Nessus host could modify installation parameters a32Monitor
Remediation
Which version to upgrade to
Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.
| Product / package | Fixed version | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Tenable Nessus | Plugin Feed ID #202306261202 | Vendor (CNA) |
| Tenable Security Center | Plugin Feed ID #202306261202 | Vendor (CNA) |
| Tenable Tenable.io | Plugin Feed ID #202306261202 | Vendor (CNA) |
Exploit status
No known public exploit
No public exploit has been observed yet. That doesn't mean you're safe, only that the bar is a little higher.
Research context
For pentesters and researchers: attack profile, score disagreement, timeline, patch commits, credits, variant and chain candidates, bug bounty scope. All derived from existing data; no exploit code.
Timeline
From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.
No dated events beyond publication.
FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).
Patch and commit links
Commit, PR and diff links among the references. A starting point for patch-diffing and variant hunting; fixes, not exploits.
No commit or PR link among the references.
Credits
All researchersFinders, reporters and analysts named in the CNA record. Click a name for that researcher’s other records.
Variant candidates
Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.
No nightly-computed relations.
Chain candidates
An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.
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Bug bounty scope
The product’s vendor appears in a public program. Matched by name; verify the scope text in the program.
Technical details
Attack conditions
- Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it.
- A low-privileged account is enough.
- No user action is required.
- No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
If successful
- Confidentiality
- high · data can be read
- Integrity
- high · data or configuration can be modified
- Availability
- high · the service can be disrupted
- Attack vector
- Network
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Privileges required
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality impact
- High
- Integrity impact
- High
- Availability impact
- High
Weakness class (CWE)
CWE-427 · Uncontrolled Search Path ElementCVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
nvd-primary
Attack context
MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.
Attack patterns (CAPEC)
ATT&CK techniques
- Hijack Execution Flow:DLL search order hijackingT1574.001
- Hijack Execution Flow: Dylib HijackingT1574.004
- Hijack Execution Flow: Path Interception by PATH Environment VariableT1574.007
- Hijack Execution Flow: Path Interception by Search Order HijackingT1574.008
- Hijack Execution Flow: Path Interception by Unquoted PathT1574.009
Noroxi analysis
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References
Vendor advisories and official records. Exploit/PoC links are deliberately left out.