Under certain conditions, Nessus Network Monitor could allow a low privileged user to escalate privileges to NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM on Windows hosts by replacing a specially crafted file.

Related CVEs

CVE-2023-5622

Key Information

GHSA ID

GHSA-2wg8-2hgh-5f85

Published

October 26, 2023 6:30 PM

Last Modified

April 4, 2024 8:56 AM

CVSS Score

7.5 /10

Primary Ecosystem

Unknown

Primary Package

Unknown

GitHub Reviewed

✗ No

Dataset

Last updated: August 11, 2025 6:32 AM

Data from GitHub Advisory Database. This information is provided for research and educational purposes.