CVEvulnerability

CVE-2025-24915

7.8 HIGH Published 2025-03-21 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Deferred
Published
2025-03-21
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
Weaknesses
CWE-276

Description

When installing Nessus Agent to a non-default location on a Windows host, Nessus Agent versions prior to 10.8.3 did not enforce secure permissions for sub-directories.  This could allow for local privilege escalation if users had not secured the directories in the non-default installation location.

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-276 Incorrect Default Permissions weakness

References