CVEvulnerability

CVE-2017-7850

7.8 HIGH Published 2017-04-19 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2017-04-19
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-732

Description

Nessus 6.10.x before 6.10.5 was found to be vulnerable to a local privilege escalation issue due to insecure permissions when running in Agent Mode.

Affected configurations

• tenable nessus 6.10.0 • tenable nessus 6.10.1 • tenable nessus 6.10.2 • tenable nessus 6.10.3 • tenable nessus 6.10.4

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-732 Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource weakness

References