fkie_cve-2016-9259
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd
Published
2017-02-28 18:59
Modified
2025-04-20 01:37
Severity ?
5.4 (Medium) - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Summary
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Tenable Nessus before 6.9.1 allows remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037293Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
cve@mitre.orghttps://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2016-17Patch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037293Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2016-17Patch, Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
tenable nessus 6.8
tenable nessus 6.8.1
tenable nessus 6.8.2
tenable nessus 6.9


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