The version of AHV installed on the remote host is prior to 20230302.102005. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the NXSA-AHV-20230302.103032 advisory.

  - In jQuery versions greater than or equal to 1.0.3 and before 3.5.0, passing HTML containing <option>     elements from untrusted sources - even after sanitizing it - to one of jQuery's DOM manipulation methods     (i.e. .html(), .append(), and others) may execute untrusted code. This problem is patched in jQuery 3.5.0.
    (CVE-2020-11023)

  - A flaw was found in rsync. When using the `--safe-links` option, the rsync client fails to properly verify     if a symbolic link destination sent from the server contains another symbolic link within it. This results     in a path traversal vulnerability, which may lead to arbitrary file write outside the desired directory.
    (CVE-2024-12088)

  - A vulnerability was found in Unbound due to incorrect default permissions, allowing any process outside     the unbound group to modify the unbound runtime configuration. If a process can connect over localhost to     port 8953, it can alter the configuration of unbound.service. This flaw allows an unprivileged attacker to     manipulate a running instance, potentially altering forwarders, allowing them to track all queries     forwarded by the local resolver, and, in some cases, disrupting resolving altogether. (CVE-2024-1488)

  - NLnet Labs Unbound up to and including version 1.21.0 contains a vulnerability when handling replies with     very large RRsets that it needs to perform name compression for. Malicious upstreams responses with very     large RRsets can cause Unbound to spend a considerable time applying name compression to downstream     replies. This can lead to degraded performance and eventually denial of service in well orchestrated     attacks. The vulnerability can be exploited by a malicious actor querying Unbound for the specially     crafted contents of a malicious zone with very large RRsets. Before Unbound replies to the query it will     try to apply name compression which was an unbounded operation that could lock the CPU until the whole     packet was complete. Unbound version 1.21.1 introduces a hard limit on the number of name compression     calculations it is willing to do per packet. Packets that need more compression will result in semi-     compressed packets or truncated packets, even on TCP for huge messages, to avoid locking the CPU for long.
    This change should not affect normal DNS traffic. (CVE-2024-8508)

  - A path traversal vulnerability exists in rsync. It stems from behavior enabled by the `--inc-recursive`     option, a default-enabled option for many client options and can be enabled by the server even if not     explicitly enabled by the client. When using the `--inc-recursive` option, a lack of proper symlink     verification coupled with deduplication checks occurring on a per-file-list basis could allow a server to     write files outside of the client's intended destination directory. A malicious server could write     malicious files to arbitrary locations named after valid directories/paths on the client. (CVE-2024-12087)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

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Nutanix AHV : Multiple Vulnerabilities (NXSA-AHV-20230302.103032)

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