Tenable Nessus < 10.0.0 Privilege Escalation Vulnerability (TNS-2021-18)

Tenable Nessus is prone to a privilege escalation vulnerability. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2021 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 = "cpe:/a:tenable:nessus";...

Privilege escalation

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 ...