CVE-2022-28291
Insufficiently Protected Credentials: An authenticated user with debug privileges can retrieve stored Nessus policy credentials from the “nessusd” process in cleartext via process dumping. The affected products are all versions of Nessus Essentials and Professional. The vulnerability allows an attacker to access credentials stored in Nessus scanners, potentially compromising its customers’ network of assets.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 6.5 (v3.1)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-522
- EPSS score
- 0.8% (55th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2022-32743)
- Published
- October 17, 2022
- NVD last modified
- June 17, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2022-32743 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on May 13, 2025.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- tenable / nessus
Certified products that may be affected
3 FIPS 140 or Common Criteria certified products, from automated matching by sec-certs.org.
- Nessus 10.5.3 - Tenable, Inc. - Common Criteria CCEVS-VR-VID-11368-2023 - archived
- Nessus Manager 8.11.1 - Tenable, Inc. - Common Criteria CCEVS-VR-VID-11067-2020 - archived
- 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
- https://cybersecurityworks.com/blog/zero-days/csw-expert-discovers-a-zero-day-vulnerability-in-tenables-nessus-scanner.html(Exploit, Third Party Advisory)
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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