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CVE-2003-0372 — MEDIUM severity vulnerability (Signed integer vulnerability in libnasl in Nessus before 2.0)

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.

CVE IDCVE-2003-0372
SeverityMEDIUM
CVSS score4.6
CVSS vectorAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
CWECWE-189
StatusModified
Published2003-06-16
Last modified2026-04-16
DescriptionSigned 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.
SourceNIST National Vulnerability Database

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