Medium severity6.7NVD Advisory· Published Mar 19, 2021· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2021-20077

Description

Nessus Agent versions 7.2.0 through 8.2.2 were found to inadvertently capture the IAM role security token on the local host during initial linking of the Nessus Agent when installed on an Amazon EC2 instance. This could allow a privileged attacker to obtain the token.

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Affected products

Tenable/Nessus Agent
cpe:2.3:a:tenable:nessus_agent:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Range: >=7.2.0,<8.2.3
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Range: 7.2.0 - 8.2.2

Patches

Vulnerability mechanics

References

www.tenable.com/security/tns-2021-04-0nvdPatchVendor Advisory
www.tenable.com/security/tns-2021-07nvdNot ApplicableVendor Advisory

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