Description
A race condition vulnerability exists where an authenticated, local attacker on a Windows Nessus Agent host could modify installation parameters at installation time, which could lead to the execution of arbitrary code on the Nessus host. - CVE-2024-3292
Published: 2024-05-17
Score: 8.2 High
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Remediation

Vendor Solution

Tenable has released Nessus Agent 10.6.4 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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Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2024-31882 A race condition vulnerability exists where an authenticated, local attacker on a Windows Nessus Agent host could modify installation parameters at installation time, which could lead to the execution of arbitrary code on the Nessus host. - CVE-2024-3292
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Tenable Nessus Agent
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: tenable

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-01T20:05:08.226Z

Reserved: 2024-04-03T21:25:02.108Z

Link: CVE-2024-3292

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Updated: 2024-08-01T20:05:08.226Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2024-05-17T18:15:07.450

Modified: 2026-04-15T00:35:42.020

Link: CVE-2024-3292

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Updated: 2025-07-12T22:31:27Z

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