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CVE-2025-36630 (GCVE-0-2025-36630)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-07-01 23:11 – Updated: 2025-07-02 13:24
VLAI
Title
Local Privilege Escalation
Summary
In Tenable Nessus versions prior to 10.8.5 on a Windows host, it was found that a non-administrative user could overwrite arbitrary local system files with log content at SYSTEM privilege.
Severity
8.4 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-07-02 13:02 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-269 - Improper Privilege Management
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Tenable Nessus Affected: 0 , < 10.8.5 (semver)
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Credits
Rishad Sheikh - CVE-2025-36630
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