CVE-2021-20118

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Summary

CVECVE-2021-20118
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2021-09-09 12:15:00 UTC
Updated2022-07-12 17:42:00 UTC
DescriptionNessus Agent 8.3.0 and earlier was found to contain a local privilege escalation vulnerability which could allow an authenticated, local administrator to run specific executables on the Nessus Agent host. This is different than CVE-2021-20117.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-noinfo

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Tenable Nessus Agent All All All All

References

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[R1] Nessus Agent 8.3.1 Fixes Multiple Vulnerabilities - Security Advisory | Tenable® MISC www.tenable.com
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