CVE-2003-0372: Nessus

Medium severity, CVSS 4.6. EPSS: 0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Signed integer vulnerability in libnasl in Nessus before 2.0.6 allows local users with plugin upload privileges to cause a denial of service (core dump) and possibly execute arbitrary code by causing a negative argument to be provided to the insstr function as used in a NASL script.

Affected products

• Nessus Nessus: up to and including 2.0.5

Published 2003-06-16. Last modified 2026-06-16.