CVE-2019-3982: 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…

PriorityP432medium6.5CVSS 3.1

AVNACLPRLUINSUCNINAH

EPSS

1.78%

75.5th percentile

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

1 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
tenable	nessus	<= 8.6.0	—

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.16.5MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

nvdv2.04.0MEDIUMAV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

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