Nessus versions 8.13.2 and earlier were found to contain 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.
References
Link Resource
https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2021-07 Third Party Advisory
History

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cve-icon MITRE Information

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: tenable

Published: 2021-06-29T18:16:35

Updated: 2021-06-29T18:16:35

Reserved: 2020-12-17T00:00:00


Link: CVE-2021-20079

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cve-icon NVD Information

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2021-06-29T19:15:08.987

Modified: 2022-07-12T17:42:04.277


Link: CVE-2021-20079

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