CVE-2021-20099

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Summary

CVECVE-2021-20099
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2021-06-28 11:15:00 UTC
Updated2022-07-12 17:42:00 UTC
DescriptionNessus 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-2021-20100.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-noinfo

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Microsoft Windows - All All All
Application Tenable Nessus All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
[R1] Nessus Agent 8.2.5 Fixes Multiple Vulnerabilities - Security Advisory | Tenable® MISC www.tenable.com
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Legacy QID Mappings

  • 375654 Tenable Nessus Multiple Vulnerabilities (TNS-2021-11)
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