cve-2021-20079
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2021-06-29 18:16
Modified
2024-08-03 17:30
Severity ?
Summary
Nessus versions 8.13.2 and earlier were found to contain a privilege escalation vulnerability which could allow a Nessus administrator user to upload a specially crafted file that could lead to gaining administrator privileges on the Nessus host.
References
vulnreport@tenable.comhttps://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2021-07Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2021-07Third Party Advisory
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