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CVE-2017-8051

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 16.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2017-04-21 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-78

Description

Tenable Appliance 3.5 - 4.4.0, and possibly prior versions, contains a flaw in the simpleupload.py script in the Web UI. Through the manipulation of the tns_appliance_session_user parameter, a remote attacker can inject arbitrary commands.

Affected products

• Tenable Appliance: 3.4.0, 3.5.0, 3.5.1, 3.10.0, 3.10.1, 4.0.0 (+5)

References

• http://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2017-07
• https://vulndb.cyberriskanalytics.com/153135
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/41892/
• http://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2017-07
• https://vulndb.cyberriskanalytics.com/153135
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/41892/

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