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CVE-2021-20117

Published: 09/09/2021 Updated: 12/07/2022
CVSS v2 Base Score: 7.2 | Impact Score: 10 | Exploitability Score: 3.9
CVSS v3 Base Score: 6.7 | Impact Score: 5.9 | Exploitability Score: 0.8
VMScore: 642
Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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Vulnerability Summary

Nessus Agent 8.3.0 and previous versions 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-2021-20118.

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Vendor Advisories

Tenable Security Advisories: [R1] Nessus Agent 8.3.1 Fixes Multiple Vulnerabilities
Nessus Agent 830 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 ...

References

NVD-CWE-noinfohttps://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2021-15https://nvd.nist.govhttps://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2021-15
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