CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
CVSS3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
AI Score
Confidence
High
EPSS
Percentile
84.7%
Tenable Nessus is prone to multiple vulnerabilities.
# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2019 Greenbone AG
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
CPE = "cpe:/a:tenable:nessus";
if(description)
{
script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.107633");
script_version("2023-11-17T16:10:13+0000");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2023-11-17 16:10:13 +0000 (Fri, 17 Nov 2023)");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2019-04-02 15:40:22 +0200 (Tue, 02 Apr 2019)");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"7.8");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C");
script_tag(name:"severity_vector", value:"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H");
script_tag(name:"severity_origin", value:"NVD");
script_tag(name:"severity_date", value:"2022-06-06 17:18:00 +0000 (Mon, 06 Jun 2022)");
script_cve_id("CVE-2019-1559", "CVE-2017-18214", "CVE-2016-4055");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"remote_banner");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
script_name("Tenable Nessus < 8.3.0 Multiple Vulnerabilities (TNS-2019-02)");
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2019 Greenbone AG");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_family("Web application abuses");
script_dependencies("gb_tenable_nessus_consolidation.nasl");
script_mandatory_keys("tenable/nessus/detected");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"Tenable Nessus is prone to multiple vulnerabilities.");
script_tag(name:"vuldetect", value:"Checks if a vulnerable version is present on the target host.");
script_tag(name:"insight", value:"These vulnerabilities exist in third party components used by
Nessus:
- An Information disclosure vulnerability in OpenSSL.
- A denial of service (DoS) vulnerability in the moment module before 2.19.3 for Node.js.
- A denial of service (DoS) vulnerability in the duration function in the moment package before
2.11.2 for Node.js.");
script_tag(name:"impact", value:"An unauthenticated, remote attacker may be able to:
- obtain sensitive information, caused by the failure to immediately close the TCP connection
after the hosts encounter a zero-length record with valid padding. (CVE-2019-1559)
- to cause CPU consumption via regular expression of crafted date string different than
CVE-2016-4055. (CVE-2017-18214)
- to cause CPU consumption via date string ReDoS. (CVE-2016-4055)");
script_tag(name:"affected", value:"Tenable Nessus versions prior to version 8.3.0.");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Update to version 8.3.0 or later.");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2019-02");
exit(0);
}
include( "version_func.inc" );
include( "host_details.inc" );
if( isnull( port = get_app_port( cpe:CPE ) ) )
exit( 0 );
if( ! infos = get_app_version_and_location( cpe:CPE, port:port, exit_no_version:TRUE ) )
exit( 0 );
vers = infos["version"];
path = infos["location"];
if( version_is_less( version:vers, test_version:"8.3.0" ) ) {
report = report_fixed_ver( installed_version:vers, fixed_version:"8.3.0", install_path:path );
security_message( data:report, port:port );
exit( 0 );
}
exit( 99 );
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
CVSS3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
AI Score
Confidence
High
EPSS
Percentile
84.7%