CVE-2003-0373: Nessus

Medium severity, CVSS 4.4. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Multiple buffer overflows in libnasl in Nessus before 2.0.6 allow local users with plugin upload privileges to cause a denial of service (core dump) and possibly execute arbitrary code via (1) a long proto argument to the scanner_add_port function, (2) a long user argument to the ftp_log_in function, (3) a long pass argument to the ftp_log_in function.

Affected products

• Nessus Nessus: up to and including 2.0.5

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