Nessus vulnerabilities
10 known vulnerabilities in Nessus from Tenable. 10 are rated high or critical. Each entry lists the affected versions and the release that fixes it, where the vendor has published one.
Latest first
- 7.8 High severity
Tenable Nessus, Tenable Nessus Agent: Improper Link Resolution Before File Access
This vulnerability allows an attacker to create a junction, enabling the deletion of arbitrary files with SYSTEM privileges. As a result, this condition potentially facilitates arbitrary code execution, whereby an attacker may exploit the vulnerability to exec
- 7.1 High severity
Nessus: Improper Privilege Management
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.
- 7.8 High severity
Nessus: Incorrect Default Permissions
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-defa
- 8.2 High severity
Nessus: Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition
A race condition vulnerability exists where an authenticated, local attacker on a Windows Nessus host could modify installation parameters at installation time, which could lead to the execution of arbitrary code on the Nessus host
- 7.8 High severity
Nessus: Improper Preservation of Permissions
When installing Nessus to a directory outside of the default location on a Windows host, Nessus versions prior to 10.7.3 did not enforce secure permissions for sub-directories. This could allow for local privilege escalation if users had not secured the direct
- 7.8 High severity
Nessus Agent: Improper Privilege Management
As a part of Tenable’s vulnerability disclosure program, a vulnerability in a Nessus plugin was identified and reported. This vulnerability could allow a malicious actor with sufficient permissions on a scan target to place a binary in a specific filesystem lo
- 7.3 High severity
Nessus: Improper Privilege Management
Under certain conditions, a low privileged attacker could load a specially crafted file during installation or upgrade to escalate privileges on Windows and Linux hosts.
- 8.8 High severity
Tenable.io: Uncontrolled Search Path Element
Vulnerability in Tenable Tenable.Io, Tenable Nessus, Tenable Security Center.This issue affects Tenable.Io: before Plugin Feed ID #202306261202 ; Nessus: before Plugin Feed ID #202306261202 ; Security Center: before Plugin Feed ID #202306261202 . This vulnerab
- 8.8 High severity
Tenable.io, Tenable.sc and Nessus: Uncontrolled Search Path Element
A vulnerability was reported where through modifying the scan variables, an authenticated user in Tenable products, that has Scan Policy Configuration roles, could manipulate audit policy variables to execute arbitrary commands on credentialed scan targets.
- 8.8 High severity
Tenable.io, Tenable.sc, Nessus: Improper Privilege Management
As part of our Security Development Lifecycle, a potential privilege escalation issue was identified internally. This could allow a malicious actor with sufficient permissions to modify environment variables and abuse an impacted plugin in order to escalate pr