Vulnerabilities > CVE-2021-20099 - Unspecified vulnerability in Tenable Nessus

CVSS 6.7 - MEDIUM

Attack vector

LOCAL

Attack complexity

LOW

Privileges required

HIGH

Confidentiality impact

HIGH

Integrity impact

HIGH

Availability impact

HIGH

local

low complexity

tenable

NVD

Published: 2021-06-28

Updated: 2022-07-12

Summary

Nessus Agent 8.2.4 and earlier for Windows were found to contain multiple local privilege escalation vulnerabilities which could allow an authenticated, local administrator to run specific Windows executables as the Nessus host. This is different than CVE-2021-20100.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part	Description	Count
Application	Tenable Tenable Nessus - Tenable Nessus 4.4.1.15078 Tenable Nessus 5.2.0 Tenable Nessus 5.2.1 Tenable Nessus 5.2.2 Tenable Nessus 5.2.3 Tenable Nessus 5.2.4 Tenable Nessus 5.2.5 Tenable Nessus 5.2.6 Tenable Nessus 5.2.7 Tenable Nessus 5.2.8 Tenable Nessus 5.2.9 Tenable Nessus 5.2.10 Tenable Nessus 5.2.11 Tenable Nessus 5.2.12 Tenable Nessus 6.0.0 Tenable Nessus 6.0.1 Tenable Nessus 6.0.2 Tenable Nessus 6.1.0 Tenable Nessus 6.1.1 Tenable Nessus 6.1.2 Tenable Nessus 6.2.0 Tenable Nessus 6.2.1 Tenable Nessus 6.3.0 Tenable Nessus 6.3.1 Tenable Nessus 6.3.2 Tenable Nessus 6.3.3 Tenable Nessus 6.3.4 Tenable Nessus 6.3.5 Tenable Nessus 6.3.6 Tenable Nessus 6.3.7 Tenable Nessus 6.4.0 Tenable Nessus 6.4.1 Tenable Nessus 6.4.2 Tenable Nessus 6.4.3 Tenable Nessus 6.5.0 Tenable Nessus 6.5.1 Tenable Nessus 6.5.2 Tenable Nessus 6.5.3 Tenable Nessus 6.5.4 Tenable Nessus 6.5.5 Tenable Nessus 6.5.6 Tenable Nessus 6.6.0 Tenable Nessus 6.6.1 Tenable Nessus 6.6.2 Tenable Nessus 6.7 Tenable Nessus 6.7.0 Tenable Nessus 6.8 Tenable Nessus 6.8.0 Tenable Nessus 6.8.1 Tenable Nessus 6.8.2 Tenable Nessus 6.9 Tenable Nessus 6.9.0 Tenable Nessus 6.9.1 Tenable Nessus 6.9.2 Tenable Nessus 6.9.3 Tenable Nessus 6.10.0 Tenable Nessus 6.10.1 Tenable Nessus 6.10.2 Tenable Nessus 6.10.3 Tenable Nessus 6.10.4 Tenable Nessus 6.10.5 Tenable Nessus 6.10.6 Tenable Nessus 6.10.7 Tenable Nessus 6.10.8 Tenable Nessus 6.10.9 Tenable Nessus 6.11.0 Tenable Nessus 6.11.1 Tenable Nessus 6.11.2 Tenable Nessus 6.11.3 Tenable Nessus 6.12.0 Tenable Nessus 6.12.1 Tenable Nessus 7.0.0 Tenable Nessus 7.0.1 Tenable Nessus 7.0.2 Tenable Nessus 7.0.3 Tenable Nessus 7.1.0 Tenable Nessus 7.1.1 Tenable Nessus 7.1.2 Tenable Nessus 7.1.3 Tenable Nessus 7.1.4 Tenable Nessus 7.1.5 Tenable Nessus 7.2.0 Tenable Nessus 7.2.1 Tenable Nessus 7.2.2 Tenable Nessus 7.2.3 Tenable Nessus 8.0.0 Tenable Nessus 8.0.1 Tenable Nessus 8.1.0 Tenable Nessus 8.1.1 Tenable Nessus 8.1.2 Tenable Nessus 8.2.0 Tenable Nessus 8.2.1 Tenable Nessus 8.2.2 Tenable Nessus 8.2.3 Tenable Nessus 8.2.4	96
OS	Microsoft Microsoft Windows -	1

References

https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2021-12