{"id":"CVE-2023-2005","title":"Vulnerability in Tenable Tenable.Io, Tenable Nessus, Tenable Security Center.This issue affects Tenable.Io: before Plugin Feed ID #202306261202 ; Nessus: before Plugin Feed ID #202306261202 ; Security Center: before Plugin Feed ID #20230…","summary":"Vulnerability in Tenable Tenable.Io, Tenable Nessus, Tenable Security Center.This issue affects Tenable.Io: before Plugin Feed ID #202306261202 ; Nessus: before Plugin Feed ID #202306261202 ; Security Center: before Plugin Feed ID #20230…","severity":"medium","cvss":6.3,"cvssVector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","cwe":["CWE-427"],"vendor":"tenable","product":"nessus","affected":["nessus","security_center","tenable.io"],"published":"2023-06-26","updated":"2026-08-17","source":"NVD","sourceUrl":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-2005","references":[{"url":"https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2023-21","label":"vulnreport@tenable.com"},{"url":"https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2023-21","label":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"tags":["nvd"],"epss":0.00378,"epssPercentile":0.31559,"ingestedAt":"2026-08-17T14:55:59.024Z","slug":"CVE-2023-2005","body":"## Overview\n\nVulnerability in Tenable Tenable.Io, Tenable Nessus, Tenable Security Center.This issue affects Tenable.Io: before Plugin Feed ID #202306261202 ; Nessus: before Plugin Feed ID #202306261202 ; Security Center: before Plugin Feed ID #202306261202 .\n\nThis vulnerability could allow a malicious actor with sufficient permissions on a scan target to place a binary in a specific filesystem location, and abuse the impacted plugin in order to escalate privileges.\n\n\n\n\n## Affected\n\n- `nessus`\n- `security_center`\n- `tenable.io`\n\n## Remediation\n\nRefer to the linked advisories for vendor-supplied fixes and affected version ranges.","depth":"sunlit","depthScore":35,"depthScoreParts":{"impact":34.7,"likelihood":0.1,"exploitation":0,"ransomware":0},"changes":[]}