Nessus Agent 8.3.0 and earlier were found to contain multiple local privilege escalation vulnerabilities which could allow an authenticated, local administrator to run specific executables on the Nessus Agent host.
Nessus Agent 8.3.0 and earlier were found to contain multiple local privilege escalation vulnerabilities which could allow an authenticated, local administrator to run specific executables on the Nessus Agent host.
Solution
Tenable has released Nessus Agent 8.3.1 to address these issues. The installation files can be obtained from the Tenable Downloads Portal (https://www.tenable.com/downloads/nessus-agents).
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