What is CVE-2017-7849?

CVE-2017-7849 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Tenable Nessus, classified under Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2017-04-19.

How severe is CVE-2017-7849?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Tenable Nessus

CVE-2017-7849

Nessus 6.10.x before 6.10.5 was found to be vulnerable to a local denial of service condition due to insecure permissions when running in Agent Mode.

Published 2017-04-19 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.003 (14.7th percentile), scored 2026-09-30.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 15th percentile — 14.7% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.003 · newest: 0.003 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Tenable Nessus — versions 6.10.0, 6.10.1, 6.10.2

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-732 — Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource

References

www.tenable.com/security/tns-2017-10 (Vendor Advisory)
www.securityfocus.com/bid/97951 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-7849?: CVE-2017-7849 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Tenable Nessus, classified under Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2017-04-19.
How severe is CVE-2017-7849?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.