CVE-2021-20118

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-2021-20117.

Risk Information

Base Score
6.7
MODERATE
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score
Exploitation Probability
0.043

Associated Vulnerability

VulnerabilityOS Platform
Vulnerabilities CVE-2021-20117,CVE-2021-20118 are fixed in Nessus Agent (8.3.1.20060)Windows
Vulnerabilities CVE-2021-20117,CVE-2021-20118 are fixed in Nessus Agent (x64) (8.3.1.20060)Windows

Patch Details

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Patch IDPatch Description
PATCH-337447Nessus Agent (10.6.1)
PATCH-337448Nessus Agent (x64) (10.6.1)

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1234
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-1234