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Vulnerability DatabaseCVE-2025-36625
CVE-2025-36625:
Tenable Nessus vulnerability analysis and mitigation
Overview
CVE-2025-36625 affects Nessus versions prior to 10.8.4. The vulnerability allows non-authenticated attackers to manipulate logging entries in Nessus by manipulating HTTP requests to the application. This vulnerability was discovered by Antoine Roly and was disclosed on April 17, 2025 (Tenable Advisory).
Technical details
The vulnerability is classified under CWE-117: Improper Output Neutralization for Logs. The CVSS v3.1 base score for this vulnerability is 4.3 (MEDIUM) with the following vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N. This indicates that the vulnerability can be exploited remotely, requires low attack complexity, needs no privileges, but does require user interaction (Tenable Advisory, NVD).
Impact
The vulnerability allows attackers to alter Nessus logging entries, which could potentially lead to log manipulation and tampering with security audit trails. This could affect the integrity of logging data and potentially mask other malicious activities (Tenable Advisory).
Mitigation and workarounds
Tenable has released Nessus version 10.8.4 to address this vulnerability. Users are advised to upgrade to this version or later. The fix can be obtained from the Tenable Downloads Portal (Tenable Advisory).
Additional resources
Source: This report was generated using AI
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