Published: 19/04/2017 Updated: 03/10/2019

CVSS v2 Base Score: 7.2 | Impact Score: 10 | Exploitability Score: 3.9

CVSS v3 Base Score: 7.8 | Impact Score: 5.9 | Exploitability Score: 1.8

VMScore: 641

Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Nessus 6.10.x prior to 6.10.5 was found to be vulnerable to a local privilege escalation issue due to insecure permissions when running in Agent Mode.

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Nessus was found to be vulnerable to a local privilege escalation issue and a local denial of service condition due to insecure permissions when running in Agent Mode This may allow an attacker to gain administrative privileges on the system hosting a Nessus agent Note that these are very similar to, but different than the Agent issue fixed in ve ...

CWE-732 https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2017-10 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97952 https://nvd.nist.gov https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2017-10

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