CVEvulnerability
CVE-2021-20077
6.7 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2021-03-19
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 6.7 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/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
Nessus Agent versions 7.2.0 through 8.2.2 were found to inadvertently capture the IAM role security token on the local host during initial linking of the Nessus Agent when installed on an Amazon EC2 instance. This could allow a privileged attacker to obtain the token.
Affected configurations
• tenable nessus agent (>= 7.2.0 < 8.2.3)
References
- https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2021-04-0 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2021-04-0 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2021-04-0 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2021-04-0 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2021-07 Not Applicable, Vendor Advisory
- https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2021-04-0 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2021-04-0 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2021-04-0 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2021-04-0 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2021-07 Not Applicable, Vendor Advisory