CVE-2017-8051

critical Tenable
CVSS v3 Base Score
9.8
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score
53.1%
Exploitation probability in 30 days
Top 2% most likely to be exploited
Attack Characteristics
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Published: April 21, 2017 (3309 days ago)
Last Modified: May 13, 2026
Vendor: Tenable
Source: NVD

Description

Tenable Appliance 3.5 - 4.4.0, and possibly prior versions, contains a flaw in the simpleupload.py script in the Web UI. Through the manipulation of the tns_appliance_session_user parameter, a remote attacker can inject arbitrary commands.

CWE

CWE-78

Affected Products

tenable appliance

References

🔗 www.tenable.com 🔗 vulndb.cyberriskanalytics.com 🔗 www.exploit-db.com 🔗 www.tenable.com 🔗 vulndb.cyberriskanalytics.com