CVE-2021-20106: Nessus Agent versions 8.2.5 and earlier were found to contain a privilege escalation vulnerability which could allow a Nessus administrator user to upload a…

PriorityP428medium6.5CVSS 3.1

AVLACLPRHUIRSUCHIHAH

EPSS

1.29%

66.7th percentile

Nessus Agent versions 8.2.5 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

1 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
tenable	nessus	<= 8.2.5	—

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.16.5MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

nvdv2.08.5HIGHAV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

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