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Tenable Nessus Agent <= 8.2.3 Third-Party Vulnerability (TNS-2021-08)

🗓️ 09 Apr 2021 00:00:00Reported by Copyright (C) 2021 Greenbone AGType 
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Tenable Nessus Agent <= 8.2.3 Third-Party Vulnerability (TNS-2021-08

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# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2021 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_agent";

if(description)
{
  script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.118010");
  script_version("2026-01-09T05:47:51+0000");
  script_cve_id("CVE-2019-16168");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"4.3");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P");
  script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2026-01-09 05:47:51 +0000 (Fri, 09 Jan 2026)");
  script_tag(name:"severity_vector", value:"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H");
  script_tag(name:"severity_origin", value:"NVD");
  script_tag(name:"severity_date", value:"2021-06-15 23:15:00 +0000 (Tue, 15 Jun 2021)");
  script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2021-04-09 11:22:20 +0200 (Fri, 09 Apr 2021)");
  script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"registry");
  script_name("Tenable Nessus Agent <= 8.2.3 Third-Party Vulnerability (TNS-2021-08)");

  script_tag(name:"summary", value:"Tenable Nessus Agent is prone to a vulnerability in a third-party component (sqlite).");

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

  script_tag(name:"insight", value:"sqlite was found to contain a vulnerability, and an updated
  version has been made available by the provider.

  Nessus Agent 8.2.4 will update sqlite to version 3.34.1 to address the identified
  vulnerability.");

  script_tag(name:"affected", value:"Tenable Nessus Agent up to and including version 8.2.3.");

  script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Update to version 8.2.4 or later.");

  script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2021-08");

  script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2021 Greenbone AG");
  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_family("General");
  script_dependencies("gb_tenable_nessus_agent_smb_login_detect.nasl");
  script_mandatory_keys("tenable/nessus_agent/detected");
  exit(0);
}

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

if( ! infos = get_app_version_and_location( cpe:CPE, exit_no_version:TRUE ) )
  exit( 0 );

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

if( version_is_less_equal( version:vers, test_version:"8.2.3" ) ) {
  report = report_fixed_ver( installed_version:vers, fixed_version:"8.2.4", install_path:path );
  security_message( port:0, data:report );
  exit( 0 );
}

exit( 99 );

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09 Jan 2026 00:00Current
6.9Medium risk
Vulners AI Score6.9
CVSS 24.3
CVSS 3.16.5
EPSS0.04253
SSVC
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