SOC status:Duty analyst on shift

UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2006-2093

Nessus before 2.2.8, and 3.x before 3.0.3, allows user-assisted attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a NASL script that calls split with an invalid sep parameter.

LOW 2.6EPSS 3.61%

Does this matter?

Lower severity and a low EPSS score (3.61%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.

Description

Nessus before 2.2.8, and 3.x before 3.0.3, allows user-assisted attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a NASL script that calls split with an invalid sep parameter. NOTE: a design goal of the NASL language is to facilitate sharing of security tests by guaranteeing that a script "can not do anything nasty." This issue is appropriate for CVE only if Nessus users have an expectation that a split statement will not use excessive memory.

CVSS 2.0
2.6 LOWAV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
EPSS
3.61% probability · 89th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-399
Affected
nessus/nessus
Source
cve@mitre.org

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.