A vulnerability was found in Tenable Nessus (Security Testing Software). It has been declared as critical. This vulnerability affects an unknown functionality. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a cross site scripting vulnerability (Stored). The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-80. The product receives input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special characters such as "<", ">", and "&" that could be interpreted as web-scripting elements when they are sent to a downstream component that processes web pages. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

The weakness was released 07/19/2016 as TNS-2016-11 / 138680 / 5269 as confirmed security advisory (Website). The advisory is shared for download at tenable.com. This vulnerability was named CVE-2016-1000029 since 07/19/2016. The attack can be initiated remotely. The successful exploitation needs a single authentication. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1059.007.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 92465 (Tenable Nessus 6.x < 6.8 Multiple Vulnerabilities), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family CGI abuses and running in the context r.

Upgrading to version 6.8 eliminates this vulnerability. The upgrade is hosted for download at support.tenable.com. A possible mitigation has been published immediately after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at Tenable (92465) and SecurityFocus (BID 90729†). Entries connected to this vulnerability are available at VDB-87628, VDB-89749, VDB-90193 and VDB-90194.

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Type

• Security Testing Software

Vendor

• Tenable

Name

• Nessus

Version

• 6.0.0
• 6.0.1
• 6.0.2
• 6.1.0
• 6.1.1
• 6.1.2
• 6.2.0
• 6.2.1
• 6.3.0
• 6.3.1
• 6.3.2
• 6.3.3
• 6.3.4
• 6.3.5
• 6.3.6
• 6.3.7
• 6.4.0
• 6.4.1
• 6.4.2
• 6.4.3
• 6.5.0
• 6.5.1
• 6.5.2
• 6.5.3
• 6.5.4
• 6.5.5
• 6.5.6
• 6.6.0
• 6.6.1
• 6.6.2
• 6.7.0

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• open-source

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