CVE-2020-5765

Description

Nessus 8.10.0 and earlier were found to contain a Stored XSS vulnerability due to improper validation of input during scan configuration. An authenticated, remote attacker could potentially exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code in a users session. Tenable has implemented additional input validation mechanisms to correct this issue in Nessus 8.11.0.

Risk Information

Base Score
5.4
MODERATE
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
EPSS Score
Exploitation Probability
0.38

Associated Vulnerability

VulnerabilityOS Platform
Vulnerabilities CVE-2020-5765 are affected in Nessus Agent (x64) 8.10.0Windows
Vulnerabilities CVE-2020-5765 are affected in Nessus Agent 8.10.0Windows
Vulnerabilities CVE-2020-5765 are fixed in Nessus 8.11.0Windows
Vulnerabilities CVE-2020-5765 are fixed in Tenable Nessus 8.11.0Windows

Patch Details

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Patch IDPatch Description
PATCH-343100Nessus Agent (x64) (10.8.0)
PATCH-343099Nessus Agent (10.8.0)

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1234
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-1234