CVE-2017-2122

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Published 2017-05-12 · Modified 2026-05-13

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CVSS v3

5.4

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

5.4

Description

Cross-site scripting vulnerability in Nessus versions 6.8.0, 6.8.1, 6.9.0, 6.9.1 and 6.9.2 allows remote authenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

64%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
tenable	nessus	`6.8.0`
tenable	nessus	`6.8.1`
tenable	nessus	`6.9.0`
tenable	nessus	`6.9.1`
tenable	nessus	`6.9.2`

References

CWEs

CWE-79

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.