FKIE_CVE-2023-3251

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2023-08-29 19:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 06:13
Severity
4.1 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N
4.9 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Summary
A pass-back vulnerability exists where an authenticated, remote attacker with administrator privileges could uncover stored SMTP credentials within the Nessus application.This issue affects Nessus: before 10.6.0.
References
vulnreport@tenable.comhttps://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2023-29Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2023-29Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
tenable nessus *
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