High severity7.3NVD Advisory· Published Mar 8, 2017· Updated May 13, 2026
CVE-2017-6543
CVE-2017-6543
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
2Patches
0No patches discovered yet.
Vulnerability mechanics
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References
2- www.tenable.com/security/tns-2017-06nvdVendor Advisory
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/96418nvd
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