CVE-2019-3982 - Nessus versions 8.6.0 and earlier were found to contain a Denial of Service vulnerability due to improper validation of specific imported scan types

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Nessus versions 8.6.0 and earlier were found to contain a Denial of Service vulnerability due to improper validation of specific imported scan types

Published Oct 23, 2019

6.5

MEDIUM

CVSS 3.1

EPSS 1.78%

Description

Nessus versions 8.6.0 and earlier were found to contain a Denial of Service vulnerability due to improper validation of specific imported scan types. An authenticated, remote attacker could potentially exploit this vulnerability to cause a Nessus scanner to become temporarily unresponsive.

Affected products

Vendor n/a Product Tenable Nessus Default
n/a
- Version
  All versions prior to 8.6.0
  Status
  affected
  Constraints
  -

Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor

Product

Default status

Versions

n/a

Tenable Nessus

n/a

Version	Status	Constraints
All versions prior to 8.6.0	affected	-

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-20

Improper Input Validation

References (1)

https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2019-06
x_refsource_MISCVendor Advisory

Link	Providers	Tags
https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2019-06		x_refsource_MISCVendor Advisory

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner tenable

Published Oct 23, 2019

Updated Aug 4, 2024

Reserved Jan 3, 2019

Link CVE-2019-3982

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 17, 2026

Link CVE-2019-3982

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2019-3982