Security Advisory
CVE-2021-20135
6.7
MEDIUM
Vulnerability Description
Nessus versions 8.15.2 and earlier were found to contain a local privilege escalation vulnerability which could allow an authenticated, local administrator to run specific executables on the Nessus Agent host. Tenable has included a fix for this issue in Nessus 10.0.0. The installation files can be obtained from the Tenable Downloads Portal (https://www.tenable.com/downloads/nessus).
Published Date
November 3, 2021
Official Source
NIST NVD Advisory