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🛡️ CVE-2026-57588 — nessus

🟢 CVSS 3.3 — Low ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-89 NVD
3.3
CVSS Score
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Description

A SQL injection vulnerability in Nessus allows an attacker to craft a malicious scan result file that, when imported by a privileged user, injects malicious SQL into the scan results database, potentially enabling exfiltration of scan-result data.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. A user must be tricked into taking some action. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality low, integrity none, availability none.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

  • Attack vector: Local — a local account, shell or session on the host is needed.
  • Attack complexity: Low — the attack works reliably, with no preparation.
  • Privileges required: None — an unauthenticated stranger can try it.
  • User interaction: Required — someone has to click, open or visit something.
  • Scope: Unchanged — the damage stays inside the vulnerable component.
  • Confidentiality impact: Low — limited, and the attacker does not choose what is affected.
  • Integrity impact: None.
  • Availability impact: None.

Weakness class

CVE-2026-57588 is classified as CWE-89: SQL Injection. Untrusted input is concatenated into an SQL statement, letting an attacker change the query and reach data the request should not return.

Affected software

CVE-2026-57588 is recorded against 1 package.

  • nessus (fixed in 10.12.1)

Timeline and source

Published on 25 June 2026 and last revised on 26 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

www.tenable.com

Other advisories for this package

nessus has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-89: SQL Injection) in other software:

Details

Severity LOW
CVSS Score 3.3
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CWE CWE-89
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2026-06-25
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-06-26
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
nessus — 10.12.1

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