CVE-2023-6178

mediumpriority · track · 26EPSS 0.008 · 57 %ileDEEUUS

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

0.83% (57th) EPSS

CVSS 6.5 · medium

Is it mine?

2 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

4 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · nvd · cert_bund

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

An arbitrary file write vulnerability exists where an authenticated attacker with privileges on the managing application could alter Nessus Rules variables to overwrite arbitrary files on the remote host, which could lead to a denial of service condition.

cvss

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

6.8

010

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

v3.16.5mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:Hprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 1.2 · impact 5.2

v3.16.8mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:Hsecondary · ENISA EU

v3.16.8mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:Hsecondary · vulnreport@tenable.comexploitability 2.3 · impact 4

v3.16mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-787USprimary

affected products (2)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

Tenable Nessus Agent0 → 10.4.3enisa_euvdEU
tenable nessus< 10.4.4nvdUScpe:2.3:a:tenable:nessus:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

advisories (1)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

WID-SEC-W-2023-2957Tenable Security Nessus: Mehrere Schwachstellen ermöglichen Denial of ServiceDeutsch2023-11-16csaf · cert_bundDE
Ein entfernter, authentisierter Angreifer kann mehrere Schwachstellen in Tenable Security Nessus ausnutzen, um einen Denial of Service Angriff durchzuführen.

also known as (3)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd nvd cert_bund NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2023-11-20modified 2026-06-17

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references (6)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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