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Insufficiently Protected Credentials: An authenticated user with debug privileges can retrieve stored Nessus policy credentials from the “nessusd” process in cleartext via process dumping. The affected products are all versions of Nessus Essentials a...

An authenticated attacker could read arbitrary files from the underlying operating system of the scanner using a custom crafted compliance audit file without providing any valid SSH credentials.

An authenticated attacker could create an audit file that bypasses PowerShell cmdlet checks and executes commands with administrator privileges.

The BN_mod_sqrt() function, which computes a modular square root, contains a bug that can cause it to loop forever for non-prime moduli. Internally this function is used when parsing certificates that contain elliptic curve public keys in compressed ...

Expat (aka libexpat) before 2.4.4 has an integer overflow in the doProlog function.

Expat (aka libexpat) before 2.4.4 has a signed integer overflow in XML_GetBuffer, for configurations with a nonzero XML_CONTEXT_BYTES.

storeAtts in xmlparse.c in Expat (aka libexpat) before 2.4.3 has an integer overflow.

nextScaffoldPart in xmlparse.c in Expat (aka libexpat) before 2.4.3 has an integer overflow.

lookup in xmlparse.c in Expat (aka libexpat) before 2.4.3 has an integer overflow.

defineAttribute in xmlparse.c in Expat (aka libexpat) before 2.4.3 has an integer overflow.