CVE-2021-20099

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CVSS 3.1

6.7 medium

EPSS

<1%p36

Published

Jun 28, 2021 (Jun 28, 2021)

Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Description

Nessus Agent 8.2.4 and earlier for Windows were found to contain multiple local privilege escalation vulnerabilities which could allow an authenticated, local administrator to run specific Windows executables as the Nessus host. This is different than CVE-2021-20100.

Vendors: tenable
Products: nessus
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

NVD CVE.org GitHub PoCs EPSS (0.4%)

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