VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2021-20117

CVSS score6.7 MEDIUM
EPSS probability0.30%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2021-09-09
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Description

Nessus Agent 8.3.0 and earlier was found to contain a local privilege escalation vulnerability which could allow an authenticated, local administrator to run specific executables on the Nessus Agent host. This is different than CVE-2021-20118.

Weakness classification

  • nvd@nist.gov: NVD-CWE-noinfo

Primary references