According to its self-reported version, the Tenable Nessus application running on the remote host is 8.x prior to 8.15.7. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities, including:
libexpat before 2.4.9 has a use-after-free in the doContent function in xmlparse.c. (CVE-2022-40674)
zlib through 1.2.12 has a heap-based buffer over-read or buffer overflow in inflate in inflate.c via a large gzip header extra field. (CVE-2022-37434)
valid.c in libxml2 before 2.9.13 has a use-after-free of ID and IDREF attributes. (CVE-2022-23308)
Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application’s self-reported version number.
#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80900
##
# (C) Tenable, Inc.
##
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(167262);
script_version("1.4");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2023/10/04");
script_cve_id(
"CVE-2022-2309",
"CVE-2022-23308",
"CVE-2022-29824",
"CVE-2022-37434",
"CVE-2022-40674",
"CVE-2022-43680"
);
script_name(english:"Tenable Nessus 8.x < 8.15.7 Multiple Vulnerabilities (TNS-2022-26)");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"Tenable Nessus running on the remote host is affected by multiple vulnerabilities.");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"According to its self-reported version, the Tenable Nessus application running on the remote host is 8.x prior to
8.15.7. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities, including:
- libexpat before 2.4.9 has a use-after-free in the doContent function in xmlparse.c. (CVE-2022-40674)
- zlib through 1.2.12 has a heap-based buffer over-read or buffer overflow in inflate in inflate.c via a large gzip
header extra field. (CVE-2022-37434)
- valid.c in libxml2 before 2.9.13 has a use-after-free of ID and IDREF attributes. (CVE-2022-23308)
Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version
number.");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2022-26");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Upgrade to Tenable Nessus version 8.15.7 or later.");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"agent", value:"all");
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P");
script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:F/RL:OF/RC:C");
script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H");
script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:F/RL:O/RC:C");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2022-2309");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss3_score_source", value:"CVE-2022-37434");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"Exploits are available");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"true");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2022/11/09");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2022/11/09");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2022/11/10");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"combined");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/a:tenable:nessus");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"thorough_tests", value:"true");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_family(english:"Misc.");
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2023 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
script_dependencies("nessus_detect.nasl", "nessus_installed_win.nbin", "nessus_installed_linux.nbin", "macos_nessus_installed.nbin");
script_require_keys("installed_sw/nessus");
exit(0);
}
include('vcf_extras.inc');
var app_info, constraints;
app_info = vcf::combined_get_app_info(app:'Tenable Nessus');
vcf::check_granularity(app_info:app_info, sig_segments:3);
constraints = [
{'min_version':'8.15.1', 'fixed_version':'8.15.7'}
];
vcf::check_version_and_report(app_info:app_info, constraints:constraints, severity:SECURITY_WARNING);
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-2309
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-23308
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-29824
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-37434
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-40674
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-43680
www.tenable.com/security/tns-2022-26