CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2021-20106

Published: Jul 21, 2021 | Modified: Nov 21, 2024

CVSS 3.x

6.5

MEDIUM

Source:

NVD

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

CVSS 2.x

8.5 HIGH

RedHat/V2

RedHat/V3

Ubuntu

Additional information

NVD	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-20106
CWE	https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/.html

Nessus Agent versions 8.2.5 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	*	8.2.5 (including)

References

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