PT-2017-10029 · Tenable · Tenable Nessus+1

Noriaki Iwasaki · Published 2017-01-31 · Updated 2017-02-03 · CVE-2016-9260

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

5.4

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Tenable Nessus versions prior to 6.9

Description A cross-site scripting (XSS) issue exists, allowing remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML. This is related to the handling of .nessus files.

Recommendations For versions prior to 6.9, update to version 6.9 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2016-9260

Affected Products

Nessus

Tenable Nessus

References · 6

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-9260 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-9260 · Vendor Advisory
• https://tenable.com/security/tns-2016-16 · Vendor Advisory
• http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN12796388/index.html · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/95772 · Note
• http://jvndb.jvn.jp/en/contents/2017/JVNDB-2017-000013.html · Note