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Tenable Nessus 8.x < 8.15.5 Third-Party Vulnerabilities (TNS-2022-12)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 161617

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Synopsis

Tenable Nessus running on the remote host is affected by multiple third-party vulnerabilities.

Description

According to its self-reported version, the Tenable Nessus application running on the remote host is 8.x prior to 8.15.5. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities in third-party libraries, including:

 - An integer overflow in storeRawNames in Expat (aka libexpat) before 2.4.5. (CVE-2022-25315)

 - Expat (aka libexpat) before 2.4.4 has an integer overflow in the doProlog function. (CVE-2022-23990)

 - Expat (aka libexpat) before 2.4.4 has a signed integer overflow in XML_GetBuffer, for configurations with a nonzero XML_CONTEXT_BYTES. (CVE-2022-23852)

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 8.15.5 or later.

See Also

https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2022-12

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 161617

File Name: nessus_TNS-2022-12.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: combined

Agent: windows, macosx, unix

Family: Misc.

Published: 5/27/2022

Updated: 10/26/2023

Configuration: Enable thorough checks

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-25315

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 9.1

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:F/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:tenable:nessus

Required KB Items: installed_sw/Tenable Nessus

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/26/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/26/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-23852, CVE-2022-23990, CVE-2022-25235, CVE-2022-25236, CVE-2022-25313, CVE-2022-25314, CVE-2022-25315