CVEvulnerability

CVE-2019-3982

6.5 MEDIUM Published 2019-10-23 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2019-10-23
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
6.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-20

Description

Nessus versions 8.6.0 and earlier were found to contain a Denial of Service vulnerability due to improper validation of specific imported scan types. An authenticated, remote attacker could potentially exploit this vulnerability to cause a Nessus scanner to become temporarily unresponsive.

Affected configurations

• tenable nessus (<= 8.6.0)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness

References