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ghsa-cjfc-vqf6-fvgw

Vulnerability from github

Published

2025-04-18 21:31

Modified

2025-04-18 21:31

Severity ?

7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

When installing Nessus to a non-default location on a Windows host, Nessus versions prior to 10.8.4 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. - CVE-2025-24914

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CVE-2025-24914 (GCVE-0-2025-24914)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2025-04-18 18:18

Modified

2025-04-22 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 to a non-default location on a Windows host, Nessus versions prior to 10.8.4 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. - CVE-2025-24914

References

URL

Tags

https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2025-05

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	Tenable	Nessus	Version: 0 ≤

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