CVE-2025-24915 (GCVE-0-2025-24915)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-03-21 14:13
Modified
2025-03-22 03:55
Severity ?
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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.
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Tenable Nessus Agent Version: 0   ≤
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