Security Updates for Microsoft SQL Server 2016 and 2017 x64 (August 2018)

The remote Microsoft SQL Server is missing a security update. It is, therefore, affected by buffer overflow vulnerability that could allow remote code execution on an affected system. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could execute code in the context of the SQL Server...

NFS Share User Mountable

Nessus was either able to mount some of the NFS shares exported by the remote server or disclose potentially sensitive information such as a directory listing. An attacker may exploit this issue to gain read and possibly write access to files on remote host. Note that root privileges were not...

Multiple Mail Server EXPN/VRFY Information Disclosure

The remote SMTP server answers to the EXPN and/or VRFY commands. The EXPN command can be used to find the delivery address of mail aliases, or even the full name of the recipients, and the VRFY command may be used to check the validity of an account. Your mailer should not allow remote users to u...

MS15-034: Vulnerability in HTTP.sys Could Allow Remote Code Execution (3042553) (uncredentialed check)

The version of Windows running on the remote host is affected by an integer overflow condition in the HTTP protocol stack HTTP.sys due to improper parsing of crafted HTTP requests. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit this to execute arbitrary code with System privileges. C Tenable...

Security Updates for Microsoft Defender (April 2020)

The version of Microsoft Malware Protection Signature Update Stub MpSigStub.exe installed on the remote Windows host is prior to 1.1.16638.0. It is, therefore, affected by a elevation of privilege vulnerability which could allow an attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability to elevate...

Apache 2.4.x < 2.4.27 Multiple Vulnerabilities

According to its banner, the version of Apache running on the remote host is 2.4.x prior to 2.4.27. It is, therefore, affected by the following vulnerabilities : - A denial of service vulnerability exists in httpd due to a failure to initialize or reset the value placeholder in Proxy-Authorizatio...

Microsoft Windows SMB Registry : Nessus Cannot Access the Windows Registry

It was not possible to connect to PIPE\winreg on the remote host. If you intend to use Nessus to perform registry-based checks, the registry checks will not work because the 'Remote Registry Access' service winreg has been disabled on the remote host or can not be connected to with the supplied...

PHP 8.0.x < 8.0.28 Multiple Vulnerabilities

According to its self-reported version number, the version of PHP installed on the remote host is 8.0.x prior to 8.0.28, 8.1.x prior to 8.1.16, or 8.2.x prior to 8.2.3. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities: - A denial of service DoS attack due to insufficient validation of...

Apache 2.4.x < 2.4.52 mod_lua Buffer Overflow

The version of Apache httpd installed on the remote host is prior to 2.4.52. It is, therefore, affected by a flaw related to modlua when handling multipart content. A carefully crafted request body can cause a buffer overflow in the modlua multipart parser r:parsebody called from Lua scripts. The...

Microsoft Open Management Infrastructure (OMI) package < 1.6.8-1 Multiple Vulnerabilities

The version of Microsoft Open Management Infrastructure OMI package installed on the remote host is prior to 1.6.8-1. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities: - A remote code execution vulnerability exists in the OMI agent. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit this to...

PHP 5.6.x < 5.6.38 Transfer-Encoding Parameter XSS Vulnerability

According to its banner, the version of PHP running on the remote web server is 5.6.x prior to 5.6.38. It is, therefore, affected by a cross-site scripting vulnerability. An attacker could leverage this vulnerability to inject malicious code which executes within the security context of the...

OpenSSL 'ChangeCipherSpec' MiTM Potential Vulnerability

The OpenSSL service on the remote host is potentially vulnerable to a man-in-the-middle MiTM attack, based on its response to two consecutive 'ChangeCipherSpec' messages during the incorrect phase of an SSL/TLS handshake. This flaw could allow a MiTM attacker to decrypt or forge SSL messages by...

Apache mod_fcgid Module < 2.3.9 fcgid_header_bucket_read() Function Heap-Based Buffer Overflow

According to its self-reported banner, the Apache web server listening on this port includes a version of the modfcgid module earlier than 2.3.9. That reportedly has a heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability because of an error in the pointer arithmetic used in the 'fcgidheaderbucketread'...

AWStats Detection

The remote host is running AWStats, an open source log analysis tool written in Perl used to generate advanced graphic reports. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. include"compat.inc"; if description scriptid35974; scriptversion"1.16"; scriptsetattributeattribute:"pluginmodificationdate",...

VNC Server 'password' Password

The VNC server running on the remote host is secured with a weak password. Nessus was able to login using VNC authentication and a password of 'password'. A remote, unauthenticated attacker could exploit this to take control of the system. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. include"compat.inc";...

Apache Log4j < 2.15.0 Remote Code Execution (Nix)

The version of Apache Log4j on the remote host is 2.x 2.3.1 / 2.4 2.12.2 / 2.13 2.15.0. It is, therefore, affected by a remote code execution vulnerability in the JDNI parser due to improper log validation. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit this to bypass authentication and execute...

MS13-098: Vulnerability in Windows Could Allow Remote Code Execution (2893294)

The remote host contains a version of Microsoft Windows that is affected by a remote code execution vulnerability. The vulnerability exists in the method in which the WinVerifyTrust function deals with Windows Authenticode signature verification for portable executable files. An attacker could...

Microsoft ASP.NET MS-DOS Device Name DoS

The web server running on the remote host appears to be using Microsoft ASP.NET, and may be affected by a denial of service vulnerability. Requesting a URL containing an MS-DOS device name can cause the web server to become temporarily unresponsive. An attacker could repeatedly request these URLs...

CGI Generic Cross-Site Request Forgery Detection (potential)

Nessus has found HTML forms on the remote web server. Some CGI scripts do not appear to be protected by random tokens, a common anti-cross-site request forgery XSRF protection. The web application might be vulnerable to XSRF attacks. Note that : - Nessus did not exploit the flaw. - Nessus cannot...

Apache 2.4.x < 2.4.34 Multiple Vulnerabilities

According to its banner, the version of Apache running on the remote host is 2.4.x prior to 2.4.34. It is, therefore, affected by the following vulnerabilities: - By specially crafting HTTP/2 requests, workers would be allocated 60 seconds longer than necessary, leading to worker exhaustion and a...

Squid 3.5.x < 3.5.23 / 4.x < 4.0.17 Information Disclosure Vulnerability (SQUID-2016:10)

According to its banner, the version of Squid running on the remote host is 3.x prior to 3.5.23, or 4.x prior to 4.0.17. It is, therefore, affected by an information disclosure vulnerability in the collapsed forwarding feature due to the incorrect comparison of request headers. An unauthenticated...

MySQL 5.7.x < 5.7.33 Multiple Vulnerabilities (Jan 2021 CPU)

The version of MySQL running on the remote host is 5.7.x prior to 5.7.33. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities, including the following, as noted in the January 2021 Critical Patch Update advisory: - Vulnerability in the MySQL Client product of Oracle MySQL component: C API...

Treck TCP/IP stack multiple vulnerabilities. (Ripple20)

This plugin detects the usage of the Treck TCP/IP stack by the host thereby indicating that it could be potentially vulnerable to the Ripple20 vulnerabilities. Patches are being slowly rolled out by vendors and we will release plugins for patches as they are released by the vendors. In the interi...

SSL Self-Signed Certificate

The X.509 certificate chain for this service is not signed by a recognized certificate authority. If the remote host is a public host in production, this nullifies the use of SSL as anyone could establish a man-in-the-middle attack against the remote host. Note that this plugin does not check for...

OpenSSH < 9.8 RCE

The version of OpenSSH installed on the remote host is prior to 9.8. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the release-9.8 advisory. - This release contains fixes for two security problems, one critical and one minor. 1 Race condition in sshd8 A critical vulnerability in...

TCP Port 0 Open: Possible Backdoor

TCP port 0 is open on the remote host. This is highly suspicious as this TCP port is reserved and should not be used. This might be a backdoor REx. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. include"compat.inc"; ifdescription scriptid18164; scriptversion "1.13"; scriptcvsdate"Date: 2019/03/06 18:38:55";...

Microsoft IIS 6.0 Unsupported Version Detection

According to its self-reported version number, the installation of Microsoft Internet Information Services IIS 6.0 on the remote host is no longer supported. Lack of support implies that no new security patches for the product will be released by the vendor. As a result, it is likely to contain...

Kerio Connect < 8.1.0 SSL/TLS Information Disclosure (BEAST)

According to its banner, the remote host is running a version of Kerio Connect formerly known Kerio MailServer prior to 8.1.0. It is, therefore, affected by an information disclosure vulnerability, known as BEAST, in the SSL 3.0 and TLS 1.0 protocols due to a flaw in the way the initialization...

Microsoft Exchange Server RCE (ProxyShell)

Binary data exchangeproxyshell.nbin...

PHP 5.5.x < 5.5.9 GD Extension Multiple Vulnerabilities

According to its banner, the version of PHP 5.5.x installed on the remote host is a version prior to 5.5.9. It is, therefore, potentially affected by the following vulnerabilities related to the GD extension : - A heap-based buffer overflow error exists related to the functions 'gdImageCrop' and...

HTTP Proxy Open Relay Detection

The remote web proxy accepts unauthenticated HTTP requests from the Nessus scanner. By routing requests through the affected proxy, a user may be able to gain some degree of anonymity while browsing websites, which will see requests as originating from the remote host itself rather than the user'...

Sawmill Detection

Sawmill, a log analysis tool from Flowerfire Inc., is installed on the remote host. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. include"compat.inc"; if description scriptid50430; scriptversion"1.6"; scriptsetattributeattribute:"pluginmodificationdate", value:"2023/05/24"; scriptnameenglish:"Sawmill...

Amazon Linux 2 : openssl, openssl11 (ALAS-2022-1766)

The version of openssl installed on the remote host is prior to 1.0.2k-24. The version of openssl11 installed on the remote host is prior to 1.1.1g-12. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2-2022-1766 advisory. The BNmodsqrt function, which computes a modular...

MTA Open Mail Relaying Allowed (internal)

Nessus has detected that this internal SMTP server allows mail relaying. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. include"compat.inc"; ifdescription scriptid118017; scriptversion"1.4"; scriptsetattributeattribute:"pluginmodificationdate", value:"2020/06/01"; scriptcveid "CVE-1999-0512", "CVE-2002-1278",...

KB4014793: Microsoft Wordpad Remote Code Execution vulnerability (April 2017)

The remote Windows host is missing security update KB4014793. It is, therefore, affected by a remote code execution vulnerability in Windows WordPad due to improper validation of user-supplied input. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit this, by convincing a user to open a specially...

phpBB < 2.0.11 Multiple Vulnerabilities (ESMARKCONANT)

The remote host is running a version of phpBB older than 2.0.11. It is reported that this version of phpBB is susceptible to a script injection vulnerability which may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code on the remote host. In addition, phpBB has been reported to multiple SQL injections,...

AWStats Multiple Remote Vulnerabilities (Cmd Exec, Traversal, ID)

The remote host is running AWStats, a free logfile analysis tool for analyzing ftp, mail, web, ... traffic. The remote version of this software is prone to a command execution flaw as well as an information disclosure vulnerability. An attacker may exploit this feature to obtain more information...

Dell Integrated Remote Access Controller (iDRAC) Web Interface Detection

The web interface for Dell Integrated Remote Access Controller iDRAC, formerly known as Dell Remote Access Controller DRAC, was detected on the remote host. C Tenable, Inc. Thanks to Jason Haar for his help! include'compat.inc'; if description scriptid51185; scriptversion"1.32";...

Microsoft Malware Protection Engine < 1.1.14700.5 RCE

The version of Microsoft Malware Protection Engine MMPE installed on the remote Windows host is prior to 1.1.14700.5. It is, therefore, affected by a remote code execution vulnerability which could allow an attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code in the...

jQuery-File-Upload Arbitrary File Upload Vulnerability (Remote Check)

The version of jQuery-File-Upload running on the remote host is affected by an arbitrary file upload vulnerability. An unauthenticated attacker could leverage this vulnerability to gain access to the host in the context of the web application user. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security,...

phpMyAdmin 4.5.x < 4.5.4 Multiple Vulnerabilities (PMASA-2016-8, PMASA-2016-9)

According to its self-reported version number, the phpMyAdmin application hosted on the remote web server is 4.5.x prior to 4.5.4. It is, therefore, affected by the following vulnerabilities : - An information disclosure vulnerability exists in multiple scripts that allows a remote attacker, via ...

CGI Generic Cookie Injection Scripting

The remote web server hosts at least one CGI script that fails to adequately sanitize request strings with malicious JavaScript. By leveraging this issue, an attacker may be able to inject arbitrary cookies. Depending on the structure of the web application, it may be possible to launch a 'sessio...

Microsoft Windows SMB Service Enumeration via \srvsvc

This plugin connects to \srvsvc instead of \svcctl to enumerate the list of services running on the remote host on top of a NULL session. An attacker may use this feature to gain better knowledge of the remote host. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. Thanks to: Jean-Baptiste Marchand of Herve Schau...

MS09-001: Vulnerabilities in SMB Could Allow Remote Code Execution (958687)

The remote host is affected by a memory corruption vulnerability in SMB that may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code or perform a denial of service against the remote host. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. include"compat.inc"; if description scriptid35361; scriptversion"1.34";...

CredSSP Remote Code Execution Vulnerability March 2018 Security Update

The remote Windows host allows fallback to insecure versions of Credential Security Support Provider protocol CredSSP. It is therefore, affected by a remote code execution vulnerability. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could relay user credentials and use them to execute...

QLogic QConvergeConsole (QCC) GUI Web Interface Default Credentials

The remote device appears to be running QLogic QConvergeConsole which contains a web interface with default credentials enabled. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. include"compat.inc"; if description scriptid118331; scriptversion"1.1"; scriptcvsdate"Date: 2018/10/24 10:33:48";...

OpenSSH < 6.6 Multiple Vulnerabilities

According to its banner, the version of OpenSSH running on the remote host is prior to 6.6. It is, therefore, affected by the following vulnerabilities : - A flaw exists due to a failure to initialize certain data structures when makefile.inc is modified to enable the J-PAKE protocol. An...

Microsoft Security Advisory 4025685: Guidance for older platforms (XP / 2003) (EXPLODINGCAN)

The remote Windows host is missing a security update. It is, therefore, affected by one or more of the following vulnerabilities : - A remote code execution vulnerability exists in how the Remote Desktop Protocol RDP handles requests if the RDP server has Smart Card authentication enabled. An...

ThinkPHP < 5.0.24 RCE

The version of ThinkPhP installed on the remote host is prior to 5.0.24. It is, therefore, affected by a remote code execution vulnerability. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit this to execute arbitrary php code through multiple parameters. Note that Nessus has not tested for this...

SSL/TLS Protocol Initialization Vector Implementation Information Disclosure Vulnerability (BEAST)

A vulnerability exists in SSL 3.0 and TLS 1.0 that could allow information disclosure if an attacker intercepts encrypted traffic served from an affected system. TLS 1.1, TLS 1.2, and all cipher suites that do not use CBC mode are not affected. This plugin tries to establish an SSL/TLS remote...