CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2021-20079

Published: Jun 29, 2021 | Modified: Jul 12, 2022

CVSS 3.x

6.7

MEDIUM

Source:

NVD

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS 2.x

7.2 HIGH

RedHat/V2

RedHat/V3

Ubuntu

Additional information

NVD	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-20079
CWE	https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/.html

Nessus versions 8.13.2 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 Software

Name	Vendor	Start Version	End Version
Nessus	Tenable	*	8.13.2 (including)

References

https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2021-07

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