Tenable Nessus Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2017 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("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.106699");
  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:"2017-03-28 11:42:33 +0700 (Tue, 28 Mar 2017)");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"7.2");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C");
  script_tag(name:"severity_vector", value:"CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H");
  script_tag(name:"severity_origin", value:"NVD");
  script_tag(name:"severity_date", value:"2019-10-03 00:03:00 +0000 (Thu, 03 Oct 2019)");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2017-7199");

  script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"remote_banner");

  script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");

  script_name("Tenable Nessus Privilege Escalation Vulnerability");

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);

  script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2017 Greenbone AG");
  script_family("Privilege escalation");
  script_dependencies("gb_tenable_nessus_consolidation.nasl");
  script_mandatory_keys("tenable/nessus/detected");

  script_tag(name:"summary", value:"Tenable Nessus is prone to a local privilege escalation
  vulnerability.");

  script_tag(name:"vuldetect", value:"Checks if a vulnerable version is present on the target host.");

  script_tag(name:"insight", value:"Tenable Nessus contains a flaw related to insecure permissions that may
  allow a local attacker to escalate privileges when the software is running in Agent Mode.");

  script_tag(name:"affected", value:"Tenable Nessus version 6.6.2 through 6.10.3.");

  script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Update to version 6.10.4 or later.");

  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2017-08");

  exit(0);
}

include("host_details.inc");
include("version_func.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);

version = infos["version"];
location = infos["location"];

if (version_in_range(version: version, test_version: "6.6.2", test_version2: "6.10.3")) {
  report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version: version, fixed_version: "6.10.4", install_path: location);
  security_message(port: port, data: report);
  exit(0);
}

exit(99);