CVE-2023-3251

mediumpriority · track · 20EPSS 0.006 · 49 %ileDEEUUS

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

0.61% (49th) EPSS

CVSS 4.9 · medium

Is it mine?

3 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

4 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · cert_bund · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-28

A pass-back vulnerability exists where an authenticated, remote attacker with administrator privileges could uncover stored SMTP credentials within the Nessus application.This issue affects Nessus: before 10.6.0.

cvss

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

4.9

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v3.14.9mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:Nprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 1.2 · impact 3.6

v3.14.1mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:Nsecondary · ENISA EU

v3.14.1mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:Nsecondary · vulnreport@tenable.comexploitability 2.3 · impact 1.4

v3.14.5mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

ssvc

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

Trackcoordinatorcisa_ssvcUS

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-522USprimary

affected products (3)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

Tenable Security Nessus < 10.5.5all versionscert_bundDEcpe:/a:tenable:nessus:10.5.5
Tenable Nessus0 → 10.6.0enisa_euvdEU
tenable nessus< 10.6.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:tenable:nessus:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

advisories (1)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

WID-SEC-W-2023-2204Tenable Security Nessus: Mehrere SchwachstellenDeutsch2023-08-29csaf · cert_bundDE
Ein entfernter authentifizierter Angreifer kann mehrere Schwachstellen in Tenable Security Nessus ausnutzen, um einen Denial-of-Service-Zustand zu erzeugen oder vertrauliche Informationen offenzulegen.

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 2023-08-29modified 2026-06-17

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references (6)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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