cve-2021-20135
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2021-11-02 23:24
Modified
2024-08-03 17:30
Severity ?
Summary
Nessus versions 8.15.2 and earlier were found to contain a local privilege escalation vulnerability which could allow an authenticated, local administrator to run specific executables on the Nessus Agent host. Tenable has included a fix for this issue in Nessus 10.0.0. The installation files can be obtained from the Tenable Downloads Portal (https://www.tenable.com/downloads/nessus).
References
vulnreport@tenable.comhttps://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2021-18Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2021-18Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a Nessus Version: Nessus 8.15.2 and earlier
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