Published: 28/06/2021 Updated: 12/07/2022

CVSS v2 Base Score: 4.6 | Impact Score: 6.4 | Exploitability Score: 3.9

CVSS v3 Base Score: 6.7 | Impact Score: 5.9 | Exploitability Score: 0.8

VMScore: 409

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

Nessus Agent 8.2.4 and previous versions 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-2021-20099.

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Nessus versions 8140 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 Additionally, two third-party components (expat, sqlite) were found to contain vulnerabilities, and updated versions ...

Nessus Agent 824 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 Agent host ...

NVD-CWE-noinfo https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2021-12 https://nvd.nist.gov https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2021-11

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