Vulnerability in Nessus

CVE-2006-2093

Nessus before 2.2.8, and 3.x before 3.0.3, allows user-assisted attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a NASL script that calls split with an invalid sep parameter. NOTE: a design goal of the NASL language is to facilitate sharing of security tests by guaranteeing that a script "can not do anything nasty." This issue is appropriate for CVE only if Nessus users have an expectation that a split statement will not use excessive memory.

EPSS: 0.036 (88.3th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

  • Nessus — versions 2.2.0, 2.2.0_rc1, 2.2.1
  • N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

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