Nessus 3.0.5 cross site scripting

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability has been found in Nessus 3.0.5 and classified as problematic. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality. This manipulation causes cross site scripting. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2007-3546. The attack can be initiated remotely. There is not any exploit available. The affected component should be upgraded.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability classified as problematic was found in Nessus 3.0.5. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown part. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a cross site scripting vulnerability. 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 integrity. The summary by CVE is:

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Windows GUI in Nessus Vulnerability Scanner before 3.0.6 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors.

The bug was discovered 06/26/2007. The weakness was released 06/19/2007 with CERT (Website). The advisory is shared at vupen.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2007-3546 since 07/03/2007. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1059.007 for this issue.

It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 25612 (Nessus Windows < 3.0.6 GUI Unspecified XSS), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Windows and running in the context l. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 38584 (Nessus Windows GUI Unspecified Script HTML Injection Vulnerability).

Upgrading to version 3.0.5 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (35118), Tenable (25612), SecurityFocus (BID 24677†), OSVDB (37011†) and Secunia (SA25856†). If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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Class: Cross site scripting
CWE: CWE-80 / CWE-74 / CWE-707
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Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Nessus ID: 25612
Nessus Name: Nessus Windows < 3.0.6 GUI Unspecified XSS
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Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: Nessus 3.0.5

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Sourcesinfo

Advisory: vupen.com⛔
Organization: CERT
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2007-3546 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2007-3546
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-37621
X-Force: 35118
SecurityFocus: 24677 - Nessus Windows GUI Unspecified Script HTML Injection Vulnerability
Secunia: 25856
OSVDB: 37011 - Nessus Windows GUI Unspecified XSS
SecurityTracker: 1018318
Vulnerability Center: 15521 - Nessus Vulnerability Allows Cross-Site Scripting, Medium
Vupen: ADV-2007-2362

scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20091204

Entryinfo

Created: 03/15/2015 15:58
Updated: 06/07/2025 22:08
Changes: 03/15/2015 15:58 (68), 07/21/2019 11:13 (9), 06/07/2025 22:08 (17)
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