CVE-2021-20118

MEDIUM 6.7CVE-2021-20118 · Published 09/09/2021 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2021-20118 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 6.7) vulnerability affecting nessus agent (tenable).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.30%, higher than 23.1% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
nessus agent tenable	`≤ 8.3.0`	No fix yet

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.

References

tenable.com/security/tns-2021-15 · Patch

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Package

Affected versions

Patched versions

nessus agent

tenable

≤ 8.3.0

No fix yet

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