Vulnerabilites related to Tenable - Nessus Agent
CVE-2025-24915 (GCVE-0-2025-24915)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-03-21 14:13
Modified
2025-03-22 03:55
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- CWE-276 - Incorrect Default Permissions
Summary
When installing Nessus Agent to a non-default location on a Windows host, Nessus Agent versions prior to 10.8.3 did not enforce secure permissions for sub-directories. This could allow for local privilege escalation if users had not secured the directories in the non-default installation location.
References
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CVE-2024-3291 (GCVE-0-2024-3291)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-05-17 16:59
Modified
2024-08-01 20:05
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- CWE-281 - Improper Preservation of Permissions
Summary
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CVE-2024-3292 (GCVE-0-2024-3292)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-05-17 17:17
Modified
2024-08-01 20:05
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- CWE-367 - Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition
Summary
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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CVE-2024-2390 (GCVE-0-2024-2390)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-03-18 15:37
Modified
2024-08-21 14:42
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- CWE-269 - Improper Privilege Management
Summary
As a part of Tenable’s vulnerability disclosure program, a vulnerability in a Nessus plugin was identified and reported. This vulnerability could allow a malicious actor with sufficient permissions on a scan target to place a binary in a specific filesystem location, and abuse the impacted plugin in order to escalate privileges.
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CVE-2023-6178 (GCVE-0-2023-6178)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-11-20 20:35
Modified
2024-08-02 08:21
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
Summary
An arbitrary file write vulnerability exists where an authenticated attacker with privileges on the managing application could alter Nessus Rules variables to overwrite arbitrary files on the remote host, which could lead to a denial of service condition.
References
| ► | URL | Tags |
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CVE-2023-5847 (GCVE-0-2023-5847)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-11-01 15:30
Modified
2024-09-05 19:40
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- CWE-269 - Improper Privilege Management
Summary
Under certain conditions, a low privileged attacker could load a specially crafted file during installation or upgrade to escalate privileges on Windows and Linux hosts.
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