CVE-2018-1141: When installing Nessus to a directory outside of the default location, Nessus versions prior to 7.0.3 did not enforce secure permissions for sub-directories…

PriorityP428high7CVSS 3.0

AVLACHPRLUINSUCHIHAH

EPSS

0.25%

15.6th percentile

When installing Nessus to a directory outside of the default location, Nessus versions prior to 7.0.3 did not enforce secure permissions for sub-directories. This could allow for local privilege escalation if users had not secured the directories in the installation location.

Affected

2 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
tenable	nessus	< 7.0.3	7.0.3
tenable	nessus	—	—

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.07.0HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

nvdv2.04.4MEDIUMAV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

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