CVE-2004-1087

Terminal for Apple Mac OS X 10.3.6 may indicate that "Secure Keyboard Entry" is enabled even when it is not, which could result in a false sense of security for the user...

Sun Java Applet 1.x - Invocation Version Specification

Sun Java Applet 1.x - Invocation Version Specification source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11757/info Java provides support for dynamic and static versioning when loading applets in the Java plug-in. This means that during the invocation of an applet, a user can request that a particular...

Sun Java Applet 1.x - Invocation Version Specification

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11757/info Java provides support for dynamic and static versioning when loading applets in the Java plug-in. This means that during the invocation of an applet, a user can request that a particular version of a plug-in be used to run the applet. The featu...

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 - TABLE Status Bar URI Obfuscation

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11561/info Microsoft Internet Explorer is reported prone to a URI obfuscation weakness. This issue may be leveraged by an attacker to display false information in the status bar of an unsuspecting user, allowing an attacker to present web pages to users...

Sophos Anti-Virus 3.x - Reserved MS-DOS Name Scan Evasion

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11236/info Sophos Anti-Virus is affected by a reserved MS-DOS name virus scan evasion vulnerability. This issue is due to a design error that allows certain files to avoid being scanned. An attacker may leverage this issue to bypass the scanner protection...

dnsPoison.cpp.txt

Symantec Enterprise Firewall dnsd proxy, versions 8 and later, is vulnerable to cache poisoning attacks when acting as a caching nameserver. Is possible to inject false entries in its cache and make a false DNS server look like authoritative of a zone, when it is not. Once this information is...

Netgear RP114 3.26 - Content Filter Bypass

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10404/info It is reported that users may bypass Netgear RP114 content filter functionality. This can be accomplished by making a URI request string that is over 220 bytes in length. This vulnerability may result in a false sense of security for a network...

Web Application Default Username ('super'/'1502') / Password ('super'/'1502') - deprecated

This plugin has been deprecated due to age and the likelihood of false positives. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. @DEPRECATED@ Disabled on 2021/10/26. Deprecated Due to Age and likelihood of false positives. include"compat.inc"; if description scriptid12203; scriptversion"1.26";...

squid -- HTTP response splitting cache pollution attack

According to a whitepaper published by Sanctum, Inc., it is possible to mount cache poisoning attacks against, among others, squid proxies by inserting false replies into the HTTP stream. The squid patches page notes: This patch additionally strengthens Squid from the HTTP response attack describ...

CVE-2004-2091

Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer MBSA 1.2 does not correctly identify systems that have been patched but remain vulnerable to exploit until the system is rebooted, possibly giving the administrator a false sense of security...

nCipher Advisory #8: payShield library may verify bad requests

nCipher Security Advisory No. 8 payShield library may verify bad requests ----------------------------------------- SUMMARY ======= When a command is issued to the payShield SPP library it may return StatusOK regardless of what the real reply status was. ISSUE DESCRIPTION ================= 1...

CVE-2003-1398

Cisco IOS 12.0 through 12.2, when IP routing is disabled, accepts false ICMP redirect messages, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service network routing modification...

Horde IMP IMP_MIME_Viewer_html Class XSS

The remote server is running at least one instance of IMP whose version number is between 3.0 and 3.2.1 inclusive. Such versions are vulnerable to several cross-scripting attacks whereby an attacker can cause a victim to unknowingly run arbitrary JavaScript code simply by reading an HTML message...

Avirt Multiple Product HTTP Proxy Overflow (deprecated)

This plugin has been deprecated as it resulted in false positives without reliably detecting the vulnerability on the intended target. Avirt software is not currently being distributed or maintained. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. @DEPRECATED@ Disabled on 2020/03/30. include"compat.inc";...

ProtWare HTML Guardian 6.x - Encryption

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/7169/info A weakness has been reported in the encryption scheme used by ProtWare HTML Guardian. Specifically, the encryption scheme implemented obfuscates data using a simple bit shifting technique, making it trivial for attackers to reverse. Administrato...

BSD in.lpd File Name Handling Remote Overflow

The remote bsd-lpd daemon might be vulnerable to a buffer overflow when sent a too long file name and then asked to show the print queue when the file is being printed. An attacker may use this flaw to gain a shell on this host. Because of the conditions to positively check for this flaw are very...

Virus Infection Detection (deprecated)

This script checks for the presence of different viruses on the remote host, by using the SMB credentials that you provide to Nessus. - W32/Badtrans-B - JSGIGGER.A@mm - W32/Vote-A - W32/Vote-B - CodeRed - W32.Sircam.Worm@mm - W32.HLLW.Fizzer@mm - W32.Sobig.B@mm - W32.Sobig.E@mm - W32.Sobig.F@mm -...

PlatinumFTPServer Multiple Vulnerabilities

Platinum FTP server for Win32 has several vulnerabilities in the way it checks the format of command strings passed to it. This leads to the following vulnerabilities in the server : - The 'dir' command can be used to examine the filesystem of the machine and gather further information about the...

Alcatel OmniSwitch 7700/7800 Switches Backdoor Access (deprecated)

This plugin has been deprecated due to excessive false positives since it flags any telnet banner discovered on TCP 6778. %NASLMINLEVEL 999999 This script was written by deepquest See the Nessus Scripts License for details Modifications by rd: - added ref:...

Perl2Exe 1.0 95.0 26.0 - Code Obfuscation

Perl2Exe 1.0 95.0 26.0 - Code Obfuscation source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/6909/info Perl2Exe obfuscates Perl source code using a reversible algorithm when converting it to an executable format. This occurs when the "encrypt" option is selected. Those who use Perl2Exe with the expectatio...