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ghsa-fh62-2wf5-r836

Vulnerability from github

Published

2022-05-24 17:44

Modified

2022-06-06 00:00

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 Agent versions 7.2.0 through 8.2.2 were found to inadvertently capture the IAM role security token on the local host during initial linking of the Nessus Agent when installed on an Amazon EC2 instance. This could allow a privileged attacker to obtain the token.

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cve-2021-20077

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2021-03-19 18:46

Modified

2024-08-03 17:30

Severity ?

Summary

References

▼	URL	Tags
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	https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2021-07	x_refsource_MISC
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Impacted products

Vendor

Product

Version

▼

n/a

Tenable Nessus Agent

Version: 7.2.0 through 8.2.2

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