CVE-2019-3982: Tenable Nessus

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 1.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Nessus versions 8.6.0 and earlier were found to contain a Denial of Service vulnerability due to improper validation of specific imported scan types. An authenticated, remote attacker could potentially exploit this vulnerability to cause a Nessus scanner to become temporarily unresponsive.

Affected products

• Tenable Nessus: up to and including 8.6.0

Published 2019-10-23. Last modified 2026-06-17.