CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2021-20099

Published: Jun 28, 2021 | Modified: Jun 17, 2026

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

4.6 MEDIUM

RedHat/V2

RedHat/V3

Ubuntu

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Additional information

NVD	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-20099
CWE	https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/.html

Nessus 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.

Affected Software

Name	Vendor	Start Version	End Version
Nessus	Tenable	*	8.2.4 (including)

References

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