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

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cve-icon MITRE Information

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: tenable

Published: 2021-09-09T11:26:58

Updated: 2021-09-09T11:26:58

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


Link: CVE-2021-20118

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cve-icon NVD Information

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2021-09-09T12:15:08.617

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


Link: CVE-2021-20118

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cve-icon Redhat Information

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