CVEvulnerability
CVE-2021-20100
6.7 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2021-06-28
- 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])
- 4.6 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Description
Nessus Agent 8.2.4 and earlier for Windows were found to contain multiple local privilege escalation vulnerabilities which could allow an authenticated, local administrator to run specific Windows executables as the Nessus host. This is different than CVE-2021-20099.
Affected configurations
• tenable nessus (< 8.2.5)
References
- https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2021-12 Vendor Advisory
- https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2021-12 Vendor Advisory