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
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https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2021-18 | Vendor Advisory |
Configurations
Information
Published : 2021-11-02 17:15
Updated : 2022-07-12 10:42
NVD link : CVE-2021-20135
Mitre link : CVE-2021-20135
JSON object : View
CWE
Products Affected
tenable
- nessus