The version of AHV installed on the remote host is prior to 10.3.0.1. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the NXSA-AHV-10.3.0.1 advisory.

  - inftrees.c in zlib 1.2.8 might allow context-dependent attackers to have unspecified impact by leveraging     improper pointer arithmetic. (CVE-2016-9840)

  - Sudo before 1.9.17p1, when used with a sudoers file that specifies a host that is neither the current host     nor ALL, allows listed users to execute commands on unintended machines. (CVE-2025-32462)

  - Allows modifying some file metadata (e.g. last modified) with filter=data or file permissions (chmod)     with filter=tar of files outside the extraction directory. You are affected by this vulnerability if     using the tarfile module to extract untrusted tar archives using TarFile.extractall() or TarFile.extract()     using the filter= parameter with a value of data or tar. See the tarfile extraction filters     documentation https://docs.python.org/3/library/tarfile.html#tarfile-extraction-filter for more     information. Only Python versions 3.12 or later are affected by these vulnerabilities, earlier versions     don't include the extraction filter feature. Note that for Python 3.14 or later the default value of     filter= changed from no filtering to `data, so if you are relying on this new default behavior then     your usage is also affected. Note that none of these vulnerabilities significantly affect the installation     of source distributions which are tar archives as source distributions already allow arbitrary code     execution during the build process. However when evaluating source distributions it's important to avoid     installing source distributions with suspicious links. (CVE-2024-12718)

  - Allows the extraction filter to be ignored, allowing symlink targets to point outside the destination     directory, and the modification of some file metadata. You are affected by this vulnerability if using the     tarfile module to extract untrusted tar archives using TarFile.extractall() or TarFile.extract() using the     filter= parameter with a value of data or tar. See the tarfile extraction filters documentation     https://docs.python.org/3/library/tarfile.html#tarfile-extraction-filter for more information. Note that     for Python 3.14 or later the default value of filter= changed from no filtering to `data, so if you     are relying on this new default behavior then your usage is also affected. Note that none of these     vulnerabilities significantly affect the installation of source distributions which are tar archives as     source distributions already allow arbitrary code execution during the build process. However when     evaluating source distributions it's important to avoid installing source distributions with suspicious     links. (CVE-2025-4138, CVE-2025-4330)

  - When using a TarFile.errorlevel = 0 and extracting with a filter the documented behavior is that any     filtered members would be skipped and not extracted. However the actual behavior of TarFile.errorlevel = 0     in affected versions is that the member would still be extracted and not skipped. (CVE-2025-4435)

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-10.3.0.1)

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