CVE-2023-0524
As part of our Security Development Lifecycle, a potential privilege escalation issue was identified internally. This could allow a malicious actor with sufficient permissions to modify environment variables and abuse an impacted plugin in order to escalate privileges. We have resolved the issue and also made several defense-in-depth fixes alongside. While the probability of successful exploitation is low, Tenable is committed to securing our customers’ environments and our products. The updates have been distributed via the Tenable plugin feed in feed serial numbers equal to or greater than #202212212055.
Published:Feb 1, 2023
Last Modified:Mar 27, 2025
EPS:Feb 1, 2023
EPSS Score:0.0014
CVSS Score:8.8
Affected Products
Vendor
Product
Action
Vendor
Tenable
Product
Nessus
Tenable
Nessus
Vendor
Tenable
Product
Tenable.io
Tenable
Tenable.io
Vendor
Tenable
Product
Tenable.sc
Tenable
Tenable.sc
Exploits
No exploit reference
Common Weakness Enumeration
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
Related CVEs
Common Vulnerability Scoring System
Attack Vector
Network
Adjacent
Local
Physical
Privileges Required
None
Low
High
User Interaction
None
Required
Scope
Unchanged
Changed
Confidentiality
None
Low
High
Integrity
None
Low
High
Availability
None
Low
High
