CyberRota Analysis
This is a medium severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 6.7. See the original NVD description below for full technical details.
CVE
CVE-2021-20135
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS
6.7
EPSS
0.30%
Original NVD Description
Nessus versions 8.15.2 and earlier were found to contain a local privilege escalation vulnerability which could allow an authenticated, local administrator to run specific executables on the Nessus Agent host. Tenable has included a fix for this issue in Nessus 10.0.0. The installation files can be obtained from the Tenable Downloads Portal (https://www.tenable.com/downloads/nessus).
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