CVE-2021-20117

MEDIUM

Nessus Agent <= 8.3.0 - Authenticated Local Privilege Escalation via Executable Execution

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

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-2021-20118.

References (1)

Core 1
Core References
Patch, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2021-15

Scores

CVSS v3 6.7
EPSS 0.0004
EPSS Percentile 13.3%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

Status published
Products (1)
tenable/nessus_agent < 8.3.0
Published Sep 09, 2021
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026