CVE-2021-20135: Nessus versions 8.15.2 and earlier were found to contain a local privilege escalation vulnerability which could allow an authenticated, local administrator to…

PriorityP428medium6.7CVSS 3.1

AVLACLPRHUINSUCHIHAH

EPSS

0.30%

21.4th percentile

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).

Affected

2 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
tenable	nessus	<= 8.15.2	—
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

nvdv2.04.6MEDIUMAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

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