CVE-2006-2093: Nessus

Low severity, CVSS 2.6. EPSS: 3.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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 Nessus: up to and including 2.2.7; up to and including 3.0.2; version 2.2.0 only; version 2.2.0_rc1 only; version 2.2.1 only; version 2.2.2 only; …

Published 2006-04-29. Last modified 2026-06-16.