CVE-2019-3962

CVSS V2 Medium 4.3 CVSS V3 Low 3.3
Description
Content Injection vulnerability in Tenable Nessus prior to 8.5.0 may allow an authenticated, local attacker to exploit this vulnerability by convincing another targeted Nessus user to view a malicious URL and use Nessus to send fraudulent messages. Successful exploitation could allow the authenticated adversary to inject arbitrary text into the feed status, which will remain saved post session expiration.
Overview
  • CVE ID
  • CVE-2019-3962
  • Assigner
  • vulnreport@tenable.com
  • Vulnerability Status
  • Analyzed
  • Published Version
  • 2019-07-01T20:15:11
  • Last Modified Date
  • 2020-08-24T17:37:01
Weakness Enumerations
CWE URL
CWE-79 http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/79.html
CPE Configuration (Product)
CPE Vulnerable Operator Version Start Version End
cpe:2.3:a:tenable:nessus:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR 8.5.0
CVSS Version 2
  • Version
  • 2.0
  • Vector String
  • AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
  • Access Vector
  • NETWORK
  • Access Compatibility
  • MEDIUM
  • Authentication
  • NONE
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • NONE
  • Integrity Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Availability Impact
  • NONE
  • Base Score
  • 4.3
  • Severity
  • MEDIUM
  • Exploitability Score
  • 8.6
  • Impact Score
  • 2.9
CVSS Version 3
  • Version
  • 3.0
  • Vector String
  • CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
  • Attack Vector
  • LOCAL
  • Attack Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Privileges Required
  • NONE
  • User Interaction
  • REQUIRED
  • Scope
  • UNCHANGED
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • NONE
  • Availability Impact
  • NONE
  • Base Score
  • 3.3
  • Base Severity
  • LOW
  • Exploitability Score
  • 1.8
  • Impact Score
  • 1.4
References
Reference URL Reference Tags
https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2019-04 Vendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/109025 Third Party Advisory
Sources
Source Name Source URL
NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-3962
MITRE https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-3962
History
Created Old Value New Value Data Type Notes
2022-05-10 16:37:44 Added to TrackCVE
2022-12-03 22:42:32 2019-07-01T20:15Z 2019-07-01T20:15:11 CVE Published Date updated
2022-12-03 22:42:32 2020-08-24T17:37:01 CVE Modified Date updated
2022-12-03 22:42:32 Analyzed Vulnerability Status updated