Exploit for Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource in Tenable Nessus

Deprecated. Have a look at Watson instead. Sherlock PowerShell script to quickly find missing software patches for local privilege escalation vulnerabilities. Currently looks for: MS10-015 : User Mode to Ring KiTrap0D MS10-092 : Task Scheduler MS13-053 : NTUserMessageCall Win32k Kernel Pool...

VulnCheck KEV: CVE-2017-7199

Nessus 6.6.2 - 6.10.3 contains a flaw related to insecure permissions that may allow a local attacker to escalate privileges when the software is running in Agent Mode. Version 6.10.4 fixes this issue...

Tenable Nessus Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Tenable Nessus is prone to a local privilege escalation vulnerability. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2017 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only CPE =...

CVE-2017-7199

CVE-2017-7199 concerns Nessus Agent mode local privilege escalation. Affected: Nessus, versions 6.6.2 through 6.10.3. Root cause: insecure permissions allow a local attacker to escalate privileges when Nessus runs in Agent Mode. Impact: local elevation of privileges with full system compromise po...