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Tenable Nessus Agent < 8.3.0 Privilege Escalation Vulnerability (TNS-2021-13)

Information

Severity

Severity

Medium

Family

Family

Privilege escalation

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

6.8

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

2 years ago

Modified

Modified

2 years ago

Summary

Tenable Nessus Agent is prone to a privilege escalation vulnerability.

Insight

Insight

The product contains a privilege escalation vulnerability which could allow a Nessus administrator user to upload a specially crafted file that could lead to gaining administrator privileges on the Nessus host.

Affected Software

Affected Software

Tenable Nessus Agent prior to version 8.3.0.

Detection Method

Detection Method

Checks if a vulnerable version is present on the target host.

Solution

Solution

Update to version 8.3.0 or later.

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE)