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High severity7.8NVD Advisory· Published Apr 19, 2017· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2017-7850

CVE-2017-7850

Description

Nessus 6.10.x before 6.10.5 was found to be vulnerable to a local privilege escalation issue due to insecure permissions when running in Agent Mode.

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Affected products

5

Tenable/Nessus5 versions
cpe:2.3:a:tenable:nessus:6.10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 4 more
- cpe:2.3:a:tenable:nessus:6.10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:tenable:nessus:6.10.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:tenable:nessus:6.10.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:tenable:nessus:6.10.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:tenable:nessus:6.10.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Patches

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References

2

www.securityfocus.com/bid/97952nvdThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
www.tenable.com/security/tns-2017-10nvdVendor Advisory

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