CVE-2021-20118

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CVSS 3.1

6.7 medium

EPSS

<1%p23

Published

Sep 9, 2021 (Sep 9, 2021)

Modified

Jun 17, 2026

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.

Vendors: tenable
Products: nessus agent
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 (0.3%)

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