Attack ChainAIDerived
Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain
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AccessAuthenticate with low-privilege SC account
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DeliveryCraft report input with injected code directive
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ExploitSubmit and trigger report generation
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ExecutionServer evaluates payload during rendering
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PersistExecute arbitrary code as service account
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ImpactAccess scan data and pivot into estate
Vulnerability Assessment
| Weakness |
CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A05:2025 - Injection
ASVS 5.0
V1 - Encoding and Sanitization Eval input sanitization
MITRE ATT&CK
1 technique across 1 tactic: Execution The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up. |
| Exploitation Conditions | Exploitation requires an authenticated account with access to the report-generation feature of Tenable Security Center (CVSS PR:L confirms a low-privilege but non-anonymous account is needed; administrative rights are explicitly NOT required). The attacker must be able to reach the SC web/report interface over the network (AV:N) and supply input that is later processed during server-side report rendering - the report-rendering/evaluation path is the exact feature that must be reachable. Limiting factors: a valid low-privilege login is mandatory, so anonymous internet scanning cannot trigger it directly; exposure therefore scales with how many report-capable accounts exist and whether the console is network-restricted. No end-user interaction is required (UI:N), and no non-default configuration is called out in the description. |
| Impact | The CVSS 4.0 base score of 9.4 (Critical) is driven by a network vector with low attack complexity, high impact to confidentiality, integrity and availability of both the vulnerable system and subsequent systems, and - importantly - a privilege requirement of PR:L rather than PR:N, meaning some valid low-privilege account is a hard prerequisite. This is a genuine priority rather than an inflated high-CVSS-but-low-real-risk finding: the target is a security appliance whose service account typically has broad reach, code execution needs no user interaction, and any authenticated report-capable user suffices, so any organization running SC with multiple analyst accounts should treat this as urgent. That said, the practical exposure depends on how tightly SC access is controlled - an internet-exposed or loosely-provisioned instance is far more at risk than one restricted to a small vetted operations team. No EPSS score and no KEV/POC signals were supplied, so exploitation probability cannot be quantified from the input; the absence of these should not be read as low likelihood given the trivial complexity once an account is held. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | An analyst-level user who already holds valid Security Center credentials (for example a contractor or a compromised low-privilege account) crafts a malicious report input containing an injected code directive, then triggers report generation; the server evaluates the payload during rendering and executes attacker-controlled commands as the SC service account. From there the attacker can read stored scan results and credentials and pivot into the managed environment. No public exploit is identified at time of analysis, and no user interaction beyond the attacker's own session is required. |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Aug 14, 2026
Remote code execution in Tenable Security Center's report-generation subsystem allows an authenticated, non-administrative user to run arbitrary code with the privileges of the service account by submitting crafted input that is unsafely evaluated during server-side report rendering. Because Security Center is itself a centralized vulnerability-management platform holding scan data and credentials for an entire estate, compromise of the service account is high-impact. There is no public exploit identified at time of analysis, and the flaw is not listed in CISA KEV.
RemediationAI
Patch available per vendor advisory: apply the fixed Tenable Security Center release identified in tns-2026-22 (https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2026-22); the input data does not include an exact fix version, so confirm the target build directly from the advisory before scheduling the upgrade. Until patched, reduce exposure by restricting network access to the SC web interface to a trusted management network or VPN, minimizing the number of low-privilege accounts that can create or generate reports (revoke report privileges from non-essential users), and monitoring report-generation activity and service-account process spawning for anomalies - noting that tightening report access may disrupt analyst self-service reporting workflows. Do not expose the SC console to the public internet.
Affected VersionsENISA
Affected Packages
Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)
Affects your stack
Affects 1 package in euvd
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Technical ContextAI · show details
Tenable Security Center (formerly Tenable.sc) is an on-premises vulnerability-management console that aggregates Nessus scan data and produces reports through a server-side rendering engine. The root cause is classified as CWE-95 (Improper Neutralization of Directives in Dynamically Evaluated Code, i.e. 'Eval Injection'): attacker-influenced input reaches a dynamic code-evaluation context (such as a template or expression evaluator invoked while building a report), so supplied data is executed as code rather than treated as inert content. No CPE strings were provided in the input, so exact affected build identifiers cannot be enumerated from machine-readable data and must be taken from the vendor advisory.
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Severity by source
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H
Network-reachable report feature exploitable by any low-privilege account (PR:L) with no user interaction; eval injection yields full code execution and the service account's broader reach justifies S:C with C/I/A:H.
Primary rating from Vendor (tenable).
CVSS VectorVendor: tenable
Lifecycle Timeline
2DescriptionCVE.org
A remote code execution vulnerability exists in Tenable Security Center's report generation functionality. An authenticated, non-administrative user could exploit this issue by supplying specially crafted input that is later processed unsafely during server-side report rendering, resulting in arbitrary code execution with the privileges of the service account.
Articles & Coverage 1
Latest POC
2 public PoC links from github, metasploit
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Executive ViewAI
Tenable Security Center contains a critical remote code execution vulnerability (CVE-2026-19626, CVSS 9.4) in its report-generation system that allows any authenticated user to execute arbitrary code with service-account privileges. Since Security Center is the centralized repository for vulnerability scan data and credentials across the enterprise, successful exploitation grants attackers complete visibility and lateral movement capability across the entire security infrastructure with no patch currently available.
No vendor-released patch identified at time of analysis. Interim mitigations: implement strict network access controls limiting console and report-generation API access to trusted administrative networks only; deploy continuous monitoring of service account activities with alerting on anomalous behavior; restrict report-generation permissions to essential users and enforce multi-factor authentication for administrative access; maintain offline backups of critical scan results and credential inventories; and establish escalation procedures for immediate isolation of Security Center if compromise is suspected.
Threat Model
4 threats: Elevation of Privilege, Information Disclosure, Tampering and 1 more
5-step attack chain with trust boundaries and controls
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Threat Intelligence Overview
How this decision was reached
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SSVC AssessmentENISA
Priority Score
Attack Technique
Code injection occurs when an application accepts user input and passes it directly into a language interpreter or evaluator without proper sanitization.
Remote Code Execution represents the critical moment when an attacker successfully runs arbitrary code on a target system without physical access.
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