Description
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.
Published: 2021-09-09
Score: 6.7 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2021-7575 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.
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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: tenable

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-03T17:30:07.525Z

Reserved: 2020-12-17T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2021-20118

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Status : Modified

Published: 2021-09-09T12:15:08.617

Modified: 2024-11-21T05:45:57.417

Link: CVE-2021-20118

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