CVE-2022-3499 Information disclosure in Tenable Nessus

What is CVE-2022-3499?

CVE-2022-3499 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Tenable Nessus, published on 31 Oct 2022. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

An authenticated attacker could utilize the identical agent and cluster node linking keys to potentially allow for a scenario where unauthorized disclosure of agent logs and data is present.

Weakness: CWE-532

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-3499?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Tenable Nessus.

How do I fix CVE-2022-3499?

No fix has been published for CVE-2022-3499 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2022-3499 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-3499 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-gmj6-42q6-cwrf.