CVE-2021-20079: Nessus versions 8.13.2 and earlier were found to contain a privilege escalation vulnerability which could allow a Nessus administrator user to upload a…

PriorityP429medium6.7CVSS 3.1

AVLACLPRHUINSUCHIHAH

EPSS

0.45%

35.7th percentile

Nessus versions 8.13.2 and earlier were found to contain a privilege escalation vulnerability which could allow a Nessus administrator user to upload a specially crafted file that could lead to gaining administrator privileges on the Nessus host.

Affected

2 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
tenable	nessus	<= 8.13.2	—
tenable	nessus	—	—

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.16.7MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

nvdv2.07.2HIGHAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

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