CVE-2023-2005

highpriority · track · 35EPSS 0.004 · 32 %ileDEEUUS

grimoire priorityP2 · Scheduled

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

0.38% (32nd) EPSS

CVSS 8.8 · high

Is it mine?

7 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

4 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · cert_bund · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

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 #202306261202 . This 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.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

8.8

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · medium–high · 6.3–8.8

v3.18.8highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 2.8 · impact 5.9

v3.16.3mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondary · ENISA EU

v3.16.3mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondary · vulnreport@tenable.comexploitability 0.3 · impact 5.9

v3.18.1highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

ssvc

A stakeholder decision — act, attend, or track — from exploitation and impact.

Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical Impact: totalcoordinatorcisa_ssvcUS

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-427US

affected products (7)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

Tenable Security Nessusall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/a:tenable:nessus:-
Tenable Nessus0 → Plugin Feed ID #202306261202enisa_euvdEU
Tenable Security Center0 → Plugin Feed ID #202306261202enisa_euvdEU
Tenable Tenable.io0 → Plugin Feed ID #202306261202enisa_euvdEU
tenable nessusall versionsnvdUScpe:2.3:a:tenable:nessus:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
tenable security centerall versionsnvdUScpe:2.3:a:tenable:security_center:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
tenable tenable.ioall versionsnvdUScpe:2.3:a:tenable:tenable.io:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

advisories (1)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

WID-SEC-W-2023-1569Tenable Security Nessus: Schwachstelle ermöglicht PrivilegieneskalationDeutsch2023-06-26csaf · cert_bundDE
Ein lokaler Angreifer kann eine Schwachstelle in Tenable Security Nessus im Plugin "Feed ID" ausnutzen, um seine Privilegien zu erhöhen.

also known as (3)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd cert_bund nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2023-06-26modified 2026-08-17

references (5)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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