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Tenable Nessus 10.x < 10.4.2 Privilege Escalation Vulnerability (TNS-2023-01)

🗓️ 17 May 2023 00:00:00Reported by Copyright (C) 2023 Greenbone AGType 
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Tenable Nessus 10.x < 10.4.2 Privilege Escalation Vulnerability (TNS-2023-01). Vulnerability allows privileged escalation through crafted file execution

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# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2023 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("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.126340");
  script_version("2024-02-09T14:47:30+0000");
  script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2024-02-09 14:47:30 +0000 (Fri, 09 Feb 2024)");
  script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2023-05-17 09:29:56 +0000 (Wed, 17 May 2023)");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"9.0");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C");
  script_tag(name:"severity_vector", value:"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/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:"2023-01-28 03:45:00 +0000 (Sat, 28 Jan 2023)");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2023-0101");

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

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

  script_name("Tenable Nessus 10.x < 10.4.2 Privilege Escalation Vulnerability (TNS-2023-01)");

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);

  script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2023 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 privilege escalation vulnerability.");

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

  script_tag(name:"impact", value:"An authenticated attacker could potentially execute a specially
  crafted file to obtain root or NT AUTHORITY / SYSTEM privileges on the Nessus host.");

  script_tag(name:"affected", value:"Tenable Nessus version 10.x prior to 10.4.2.");

  script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Update to version 10.4.2 or later.");

  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2023-01");

  exit(0);
}

include("version_func.inc");
include("host_details.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_exclusive(version: version, test_version_lo: "10.0.0", test_version_up: "10.4.2")) {
  report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version: version, fixed_version: "10.4.2", install_path: location);
  security_message(port: port, data: report);
  exit(0);
}

exit(99);

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09 Feb 2024 00:00Current
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CVSS 3.18.8
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