CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2021-20118

Published: Sep 09, 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-2021-20118
CWE	https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/.html

Nessus 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.

Affected Software

Name	Vendor	Start Version	End Version
Nessus_agent	Tenable	*	8.3.0 (including)

References

https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2021-15

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