CVE-2006-2093

Severity: low (CVSS 2.6 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2006-04-29 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

Nessus before 2.2.8, and 3.x before 3.0.3, allows user-assisted attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a NASL script that calls split with an invalid sep parameter. NOTE: a design goal of the NASL language is to facilitate sharing of security tests by guaranteeing that a script "can not do anything nasty." This issue is appropriate for CVE only if Nessus users have an expectation that a split statement will not use excessive memory.

Affected products

Nessus: through 2.2.7; through 3.0.2; 2.2.0, 2.2.0_rc1, 2.2.1, 2.2.2, 2.2.3, 2.2.5 (+1)

References

http://securityreason.com/securityalert/817
http://securitytracker.com/id?1015996
http://www.osvdb.org/25084
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/431987/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/431993/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/431994/100/0/threaded
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1541
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/26034
https://usn.ubuntu.com/279-1/
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/817
http://securitytracker.com/id?1015996
http://www.osvdb.org/25084

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