CVEvulnerability

CVE-2020-5793

7.8 HIGH Published 2020-11-05 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2020-11-05
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/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

Description

A vulnerability in Nessus versions 8.9.0 through 8.12.0 for Windows & Nessus Agent 8.0.0 and 8.1.0 for Windows could allow an authenticated local attacker to copy user-supplied files to a specially constructed path in a specifically named user directory. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by creating a malicious file and copying the file to a system directory. The attacker needs valid credentials on the Windows system to exploit this vulnerability.

Affected configurations

• tenable nessus (>= 8.9.0 <= 8.12.0) • tenable nessus agent 8.0.0 • tenable nessus agent 8.1.0

References