Nessus versions 8.15.2 and earlier were found to contain...
Moderate severity
Unreviewed
Published
May 24, 2022
to the GitHub Advisory Database
•
Updated Jan 27, 2023
Description
Published by the National Vulnerability Database
Nov 3, 2021
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database
May 24, 2022
Last updated
Jan 27, 2023
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).
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