CVEvulnerability

CVE-2021-20106

6.5 MEDIUM Published 2021-07-21 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2021-07-21
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
6.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
8.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

Description

Nessus Agent versions 8.2.5 and earlier were found to contain a privilege escalation vulnerability which could allow a Nessus administrator user to upload a specially crafted file that could lead to gaining administrator privileges on the Nessus host.

Affected configurations

• tenable nessus (<= 8.2.5)

References