According to its self-reported version, the Nessus Network Monitor running on the remote host is prior to 6.5.0. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the TNS-2024-17 advisory.

  - Nessus Network Monitor leverages third-party software to help provide underlying functionality. Several of     the third-party components (OpenSSL, expat, curl, and libxml2)were found to contain vulnerabilities,     and updated versions have been made available by the providers.Out of caution and in line with best     practice, Tenable has opted to upgrade these components to address the potential impact of the issues.
    Nessus Network Monitor 6.5.0 updates OpenSSL to version 3.0.15, expat to version 2.6.3, curl to version     8.10.0, and libxml2 to to version 2.13.1 to address the identified vulnerabilities.Additionally, one     separate vulnerability was discovered, reported and fixed:A stored cross site scripting vulnerability     exists in Nessus Network Monitor where an authenticated, privileged local attacker could inject arbitrary     code into the NNM UI via the local CLI. - CVE-2024-9158 Tenable has released Nessus Network Monitor 6.5.0     to address these issues. The installation files can be obtained from the Tenable Downloads Portal     (https://www.tenable.com/downloads/nessus-network-monitor). (CVE-2024-34459, CVE-2024-45491,     CVE-2024-45492, CVE-2024-6119, CVE-2024-6197, CVE-2024-7264, CVE-2024-8096, CVE-2024-9158)

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

Detections

Analytics

Nessus Network Monitor < 6.5.0 Multiple Vulnerabilities (TNS-2024-17)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 207713

Version 1.2

Version 1.1

Version 1.2 Oct 4, 2024, 4:02 PM New Plugin Feed: 202410041602
Version 1.1 Sep 25, 2024, 9:42 AM New Plugin Feed: 202409250942