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
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cve-icon MITRE Information

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: tenable

Published: 2021-11-02T23:24:28

Updated: 2021-11-02T23:24:28

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


Link: CVE-2021-20135

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cve-icon NVD Information

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2021-11-03T00:15:07.620

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


Link: CVE-2021-20135

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