What is CVE-2020-5812?

CVE-2020-5812 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Tenable Nessus Amazon Machine Image, classified under Improper Certificate Validation. CVSS score: 5.9/10. Published 2021-02-06.

How severe is CVE-2020-5812?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.9 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Tenable Nessus Amazon Machine Image

CVE-2020-5812

Nessus AMI versions 8.12.0 and earlier were found to either not validate, or incorrectly validate, a certificate which could allow an attacker to spoof a trusted entity by using a man-in-the-middle (MITM) attack.

Vulnerability class: Improper Certificate Validation

EPSS: 0.005 (40.9th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.9 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N.

Affected products

Tenable Nessus_amazon_machine_image
N/a Tenable Nessus Ami — versions 8.12.0 and earlier

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-295 — Improper Certificate Validation

References

vulnreport@tenable.com (Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2020-5812?: CVE-2020-5812 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Tenable Nessus Amazon Machine Image, classified under Improper Certificate Validation. CVSS score: 5.9/10. Published 2021-02-06.
How severe is CVE-2020-5812?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.9 out of 10.