CVE-2025-36625 Log Poisoning in Nessus
Medium 4.3
Published
Updated
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-36625 and fix it if it is affected.
What it is: CVE-2025-36625 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Tenable Nessus, published on 18 Apr 2025.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-36625 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Affected product: Tenable Nessus. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.
Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.
Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-36625/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-36625/index.md)
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2025-36625?
CVE-2025-36625 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Tenable Nessus, published on 18 Apr 2025.
Official description
In Nessus versions prior to 10.8.4, a non-authenticated attacker could alter Nessus logging entries by manipulating http requests to the application.
Weakness: CWE-117
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-36625?
How do I fix CVE-2025-36625?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-36625 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2025-36625 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-36625 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-g69v-xr79-fx7w.