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Vulnerability CVE-2021-20118
Published: 2021-09-09
| 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. |
Type:
CWE-269 (Improper Privilege Management)
CVSS2 => (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
| CVSS Base Score |
Impact Subscore |
Exploitability Subscore |
7.2/10 |
10/10 |
3.9/10 |
| Exploit range |
Attack complexity |
Authentication |
Local |
Low |
No required |
| Confidentiality impact |
Integrity impact |
Availability impact |
Complete |
Complete |
Complete |
References: |
https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2021-15
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