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 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).
References
Link Resource
https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2021-18 Vendor Advisory
Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

cpe:2.3:a:tenable:nessus:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

History

12 Jul 2022, 17:42

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CWE CWE-269 NVD-CWE-noinfo

05 Nov 2021, 16:31

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CVSS v2 : unknown
v3 : unknown
v2 : 4.6
v3 : 6.7
CWE CWE-269
CPE cpe:2.3:a:tenable:nessus:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
References (MISC) https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2021-18 - (MISC) https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2021-18 - Vendor Advisory

03 Nov 2021, 00:15

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New CVE

Information

Published : 2021-11-03 00:15

Updated : 2023-12-10 14:09


NVD link : CVE-2021-20135

Mitre link : CVE-2021-20135

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2021-20135


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Products Affected

tenable

  • nessus