CVE-2021-20118

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 v3 6.7 MEDIUM
CVSS v2.0 7.2 HIGH

6.7^/10

CVSS v3 : MEDIUM

Vector :

Exploitability : 0.8 / Impact : 5.9

Attack Vector LOCAL

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required HIGH

User Interaction NONE

Confidentiality Impact HIGH

Integrity Impact HIGH

Availability Impact HIGH

Scope UNCHANGED

7.2^/10

CVSS v2.0 : HIGH

Vector : AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Exploitability : 3.9 / Impact : 10.0

Access Vector LOCAL

Access Complexity LOW

Authentication NONE

Confidentiality Impact COMPLETE

Integrity Impact COMPLETE

Availability Impact COMPLETE

References

Link	Resource
https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2021-15	Patch Vendor Advisory

Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

cpe:2.3:a:tenable:nessus_agent:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

History

12 Jul 2022, 17:42

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
CWE	~~CWE-269~~	NVD-CWE-noinfo

17 Sep 2021, 19:48

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
CVSS	v2 : ~~unknown~~ v3 : ~~unknown~~	v2 : 7.2 v3 : 6.7
References	~~(MISC) https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2021-15 -~~	(MISC) https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2021-15 - Patch, Vendor Advisory
CPE		cpe:2.3:a:tenable:nessus_agent::::::::
CWE		CWE-269

09 Sep 2021, 12:51

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
New CVE

Information

Published : 2021-09-09 12:15

Updated : 2023-12-10 14:09

NVD link : CVE-2021-20118

Mitre link : CVE-2021-20118

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2021-20118

JSON object : View

Products Affected

tenable

nessus_agent

CWE

NVD-CWE-noinfo

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