Tenable Nessus up to 6.7.0 Stored cross site scripting

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A vulnerability was found in Tenable Nessus. It has been declared as problematic. Impacted is an unknown function. Such manipulation leads to cross site scripting (Stored). This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2016-1000028. The attack may be launched remotely. There is no exploit available. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability was found in Tenable Nessus (Security Testing Software) and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is some unknown processing. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a cross site scripting vulnerability (Stored). Using CWE to declare the problem leads to 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. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

The weakness was shared 07/19/2016 as TNS-2016-11 / 138680 / 5198 as confirmed security advisory (Website). The advisory is available at tenable.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2016-1000028 since 07/19/2016. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. Required for exploitation is a simple authentication. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. This vulnerability is assigned to T1059.007 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

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†). The entries VDB-87628, VDB-89749, VDB-90193 and VDB-90195 are related to this item. If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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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

License

• open-source

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