Tenable SecurityCenter PHP < 5.6.32 PCRE DoS

critical Nessus Plugin ID 104640

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Synopsis

The Tenable SecurityCenter application on the remote host contains a PHP library that is affected by a denial of service vulnerability.

Description

The Tenable SecurityCenter application installed on the remote host is missing a security patch. It is, therefore, affected by a PCRE denial of service vulnerability in the bundled version of PHP.

Solution

Upgrade to Tenable SecurityCenter version 5.6.0.1 or later.
Alternatively, apply SecurityCenter Patch SC-201711.1-5.x.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 104640

File Name: securitycenter_php_5_6_32.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: combined

Agent: unix

Family: Misc.

Published: 11/16/2017

Updated: 10/9/2020

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-1283

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:tenable:securitycenter

Required KB Items: Host/SecurityCenter/Version, installed_sw/SecurityCenter, Host/SecurityCenter/support/php/version

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/27/2016

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/2/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-1283

BID: 79825

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