CVE-2017-6543

Severity: high (CVSS 7.3 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2017-03-08 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

Tenable Nessus before 6.10.2 (as used alone or in Tenable Appliance before 4.5.0) was found to contain a flaw that allowed a remote, authenticated attacker to upload a crafted file that could be written to anywhere on the system. This could be used to subsequently gain elevated privileges on the system (e.g., after a reboot). This issue only affects installations on Windows.

Affected products

Tenable Appliance: 4.4.0
Tenable Nessus: through 6.10.1

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96418
http://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2017-06
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96418
http://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2017-06

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