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Tenable Nessus < 8.7.0 DoS (TNS-2019-06)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 130433

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Synopsis

Tenable Nessus running on the remote host is affected by a denial of service vulnerability.

Description

According to its self-reported version, the Tenable Nessus application running on the remote host is prior to 8.7.0. It is, therefore, affected by a denial of service vulnerability due to improper validation of specific imported scan types.
An authenticated, remote attacker can exploit this vulnerability to cause a Nessus scanner to become temporarily unresponsive.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Upgrade to Tenable Nessus version 8.7.0 or later.

See Also

https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2019-06

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 130433

File Name: nessus_tns_2019_06.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: combined

Agent: windows, macosx, unix

Family: Misc.

Published: 11/1/2019

Updated: 2/8/2023

Configuration: Enable thorough checks

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4

Temporal Score: 3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-3982

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:tenable:nessus

Required KB Items: installed_sw/Tenable Nessus

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/10/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/13/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-3982

IAVB: 2019-B-0082-S