CVE-2022-28291 Information disclosure in Nessus Professional

What is CVE-2022-28291?

CVE-2022-28291 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Tenable Nessus, published on 17 Oct 2022. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Insufficiently Protected Credentials: An authenticated user with debug privileges can retrieve stored Nessus policy credentials from the “nessusd” process in cleartext via process dumping. The affected products are all versions of Nessus Essentials and Professional. The vulnerability allows an attacker to access credentials stored in Nessus scanners, potentially compromising its customers’ network of assets.

Weakness: CWE-522

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-28291?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Tenable Nessus.

How do I fix CVE-2022-28291?

No fix has been published for CVE-2022-28291 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2022-28291 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-28291 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Tenable Nessus

• CVE-2022-4313 Command injection in Tenable.io, Tenable.sc and Nessus High 8.8
• CVE-2023-0524 Privilege escalation in Tenable.io, Tenable.sc, Nessus High 8.8
• CVE-2023-0101 Privilege escalation in Nessus High 8.8
• CVE-2022-32973 Privilege escalation in Nessus High 8.8
• CVE-2025-36630 Local Privilege Escalation High 8.4

All Tenable Nessus vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-m36f-j5wf-g85f.