CVE-2019-3962
Content Injection vulnerability in Tenable Nessus prior to 8.5.0 may allow an authenticated, local attacker to exploit this vulnerability by convincing another targeted Nessus user to view a malicious URL and use Nessus to send fraudulent messages. Successful exploitation could allow the authenticated adversary to inject arbitrary text into the feed status, which will remain saved post session expiration.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 3.3 (v3.0)
- Severity
- LOW
- CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-79
- EPSS score
- 1.0% (61th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2019-13569)
- Published
- July 1, 2019
- NVD last modified
- June 17, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2019-13569 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 4, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- tenable / nessus
Certified products that may be affected
1 FIPS 140 or Common Criteria certified product, from automated matching by sec-certs.org.
- Tenable SecurityCenter 4.4 (SC) and Components: 3D Tool 2.0.1 Log Correlation Engine 3.6 (LCE), Passive Vulnerability Scanner 3.6 (PVS), Nessus 5.0.1, and xTool 2.1 - Tenable Network Security, Inc. - Common Criteria CCEVS-VR-VID-10443-2012 - archived
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/109025(Third Party Advisory)
- https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2019-04(Vendor Advisory)
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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