CVE-2017-8051

9.8 criticalEPSS 16%

Critical (9.8) in tenable appliance. EPSS 16% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Tenable Appliance 3.5 - 4.4.0, and possibly prior versions, contains a flaw in the simpleupload.py script in the Web UI. Through the manipulation of the tns_appliance_session_user parameter, a remote attacker can inject arbitrary commands.

Severity

CVSS 3.0

9.8 critical

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

EPSS: 16% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 96% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-78
Published: 2017-04-21
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

tenable:appliance

References

http://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2017-07
https://vulndb.cyberriskanalytics.com/153135
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/41892/
http://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2017-07
https://vulndb.cyberriskanalytics.com/153135

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