CVE-2021-20118 (GCVE-0-2021-20118)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2021-09-09 11:26
Modified
2024-08-03 17:30
Severity ?
CWE
  • Local Privilege Escalation
Summary
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.
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a Nessus Agent Version: Nessus Agent 8.3.0 and earlier
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