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Tenable Nessus Agent < 7.6.3 Third Party Vulnerability (OpenSSL) (TNS-2020-03)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 137757

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Synopsis

An instance of Nessus Agent installed on the remote system is affected by a third party vulnerability in OpenSSL

Description

Nessus Agent leverages third-party software to help provide underlying functionality. One of the third-party components (OpenSSL) was found to contain a multiple vulnerabilities, and updated versions have been made available by the providers.

Out of caution and in line with good practice, Tenable opted to upgrade the bundled library to address the potential impact of these issues in Nessus Agent. Nessus Agent 7.6.3 updates OpenSSL to version 1.1.1g to address the identified vulnerabilities.

Solution

Upgrade to Tenable Nessus Agent version 7.6.3 or later.

See Also

https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2020-03

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 137757

File Name: tenable_nessus_agent_tns_2020_03.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: windows, macosx, unix

Family: Misc.

Published: 6/24/2020

Updated: 12/5/2022

Configuration: Enable thorough checks

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-1551

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:tenable:nessus, cpe:/a:tenable:nessus_agent

Required KB Items: installed_sw/Tenable Nessus Agent

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/28/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/28/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-1551, CVE-2020-1967