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ghsa-8pfq-m65h-x2qr

Vulnerability from github

Published

2022-05-24 19:19

Modified

2022-07-13 00:01

Severity ?

6.7 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

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).

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   modified: "2022-07-13T00:01:04Z",
   published: "2022-05-24T19:19:39Z",
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cve-2021-20135

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2021-11-02 23:24

Modified

2024-08-03 17:30

Severity ?

Summary

References

▼	URL	Tags
	https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2021-18	x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	n/a	Nessus	Version: Nessus 8.15.2 and earlier

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