CVE-2021-20118 — Improper Privilege Management in Nessus Agent

CWE-269 — Improper Privilege Management3 documents3 sources
Severity
6.7MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.0%
top 86.93%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
1
Tenable Nessus Agent
Timeline
PublishedSep 9
Latest updateMay 24

Description

Nessus Agent 8.3.0 and earlier was found to contain a local privilege escalation vulnerability which could allow an authenticated, local administrator to run specific executables on the Nessus Agent host. This is different than CVE-2021-20117.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 0.8 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages2 packages

▶CVEListV5tenable/nessus_agentNessus Agent 8.3.0 and earlier

Patches

Patch: www.tenable.com ↗Patch: www.tenable.com ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-qq9w-j88c-j3ff: Nessus Agent 8↗2022-05-24
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CVEList
CVE-2021-20118: Nessus Agent 8↗2021-09-09
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