SQL injection in Tenable Nessus
Priority LOW 30CWE-89Published · Updated
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- SQL injection
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- None · High · None
- Fix status
- Fixed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-89.
Summary
A SQL injection vulnerability exists where an authenticated, low-privileged remote attacker could potentially alter scan DB content.
Why it matters now
Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.00779 56th percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix Fixed Nessus (Tenable): 10.7.0
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Partial
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
Remediation
- Fix · CNA Nessus (Tenable) Fixed in 10.7.0
Fixed in the same release
Records fixed by the same vendor advisory or release, as the CNA lists them.
- Release ·
Tenable Nessus 10.7.0
2 records Highest priority Priority LOW 2 LOW
Other records, highest priority first
- TI-2024-00880 Stored XSS in Tenable NessusPriority LOW 23
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2024-0971
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-2j63-x9pq-h9wc
References
More Tenable Nessus vulnerabilities
- TI-2022-00687 Infinite loop in BN_mod_sqrt() reachable when parsing certificates CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
- TI-2021-20962 In Expat (aka libexpat) before 2.4.3, a left shift by 29 (or more) places in the… CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8
- TI-2021-21076 In doProlog in xmlparse.c in Expat (aka libexpat) before 2.4.3, an integer overflow exists for m_groupSize. CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.1
- TI-2021-02413 NULL pointer deref in signature_algorithms processing CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.9
- TI-2021-02414 CA certificate check bypass with X509_V_FLAG_X509_STRICT CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.4
- TI-2022-07855 Expat (aka libexpat) before 2.4.4 has a signed integer overflow in XML_GetBuffer, for… CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
Sources
- CVE-2024-0971 · CVE Program
- CVE-2024-0971 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-2j63-x9pq-h9wc · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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