CVE-2025-24914: When installing Nessus to a non-default location on a Windows host, Nessus versions prior to 10.8.4 did not enforce secure permissions for sub-directories…

PriorityP339high7.8CVSS 3.1

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EPSS

0.13%

2.7th percentile

When installing Nessus to a non-default location on a Windows host, Nessus versions prior to 10.8.4 did not enforce secure permissions for sub-directories. This could allow for local privilege escalation if users had not secured the directories in the non-default installation location. - CVE-2025-24914

Affected

1 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
tenable	nessus	< 10.8.4	10.8.4

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