Vulnerabilities > CVE-2021-20106 - Unspecified vulnerability in Tenable Nessus

CVSS 8.5 - HIGH

Attack vector

NETWORK

Attack complexity

MEDIUM

Privileges required

SINGLE

Confidentiality impact

COMPLETE

Integrity impact

COMPLETE

Availability impact

COMPLETE

network

tenable

NVD

Published: 2021-07-21

Updated: 2022-07-12

Summary

Nessus Agent versions 8.2.5 and earlier were found to contain a privilege escalation vulnerability which could allow a Nessus administrator user to upload a specially crafted file that could lead to gaining administrator privileges on the Nessus host.

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 Tenable Nessus 8.2.5	97

References

https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2021-13