CVE-2025-36640

HIGH

Nessus Agent Tray App - Privilege Escalation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

A vulnerability has been identified in the installation/uninstallation of the Nessus Agent Tray App on Windows Hosts which could lead to escalation of privileges.

Scores

CVSS v3 8.8
EPSS 0.0001
EPSS Percentile 1.5%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact total

Details

CWE
CWE-269
Status published
Products (2)
Tenable/Nessus Agent < 10.9.3
Tenable/Nessus Agent 11.0.0 - 11.0.2
Published Jan 13, 2026
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026